Word: happening
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scene of the play is laid in Madrid, Spain. The characters, with one or two exceptions, are American summer tourists, who happen to meet in Madrid. The principal of the comedy is Percy Winterbottom, a Harvard undergraduate. The music, which is entirely original, has been composed in imitation of Spanish music. There will be several characteristic Spanish dances, and the whole score is calculated to give much of the necessary local color to the comedy...
...with other events. He said that it was rather his habit, after public days in Boston, to take a look in at the Cambridge police-court next day, to see that his boys, if in any trouble, had justice done them; and that in most cases, as would doubtless happen in this, the mere fact of arrest would be sufficient punishment. All that I could see of his relations to the students proved the hold he had on them in this way and, when it came to sterner discipline, I knew one or two events which showed me that this...
Unfortunately the balloon ascension did not happen as scheduled in the CRIMSON, not enough air being provided to counteract the attraction of gravity...
...seems to me, therefore, if we are to give up the Statue exercises which we all know and have enjoyed, it should not be for similar exercises in the Stadium, just because we happen to have a Stadium, but for something of definite interest. If the Statue is really a dead issue and that fact can be proved, then the class should be asked to vote, not upon indefinite exercises in the Stadium, but upon a number of alternatives, such as: No exercises at all, the Yale baseball game on Class Day afternoon or outdoor theatricals in the semi-circular...
...question, and the selection of the presiding officer and the judges. The object of this amendment is to provide a responsible officer to attend to the detail involved in arranging an intercollegiate debate, this work having been done, heretofore, by any member of the Council who might happen to volunteer...