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Chautauqua's site, beside Lake Chautauqua in New York's southwestern tip, was once a Methodist camp-meeting ground. In 1874 a Methodist circuit preacher named John Heyl Vincent and a pious Ohio inventor named Lewis Miller held a two-week institute for Sunday School teachers there. Both men were self-edu-cated, hungry for knowledge, eager to spread it. Within 1 5 years they had added schools of languages and music, started the famed Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle for home reading. Thus arose a unique conglomeration of religion, culture and fun which the late Theodore Roosevelt once...
While the orchestra plays appropriate theme songs Sweeney Todd (R. B. Clement '32) pursues his business of murder while Mrs. Lovett (R. T. Frescoln '34), next-door bakeshop proprietress, manufactures tuppenny pies out of the corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they...
Other elected officers for next year are: W. McM. Heyl '33, treasurer; Heywood Fox '33, manager; and R. F. Barker '35, assistant manager. Leaders of other departments include: G. S. Hayes '34, Vocal Club; J. M. Bradley '34, Banjo Club; J. S. Hunter 1G.B., Gold Coast Orchestra; and Lloyd Brown '34, librarian...
...meeting last night at Phillips Brooks House the elected members of the University Instrumental Clubs selected the following men to complete the list of officers for the coming year; vice-president, G. S. Hayes '34, of Andover; treasurer, W. M. Heyl '33, of Philadelphia; leader of the Banjo Club, F. F. Cary '34, of New Canaan, Connecticut; and librarian, Lincoln Bryant, Jr. '33, of Milton...
Last week U. S. scientists read with interest that Dr. Paul Renno Heyl, U. S. Bureau of Standards physicist, had determined more accurately than ever before the value of G, constant of gravitation. He found it to be .00000006670 dynes.* The most commonly accepted value for G has been .00000006658 dynes obtained in 1895-96 by Physicists Charles Vernon Boys in England and Karl Ferdinand Braun in Germany...