Word: highpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imbalance that frequently characterizes the financial decisions of the Harvard Athletic Association reached a highpoint in the HAA's treatment of the rugby team last Saturday...
...Choral Society did not fare so well for most of the remainder of the evening, the Sopranos in particular being somewhat thin and ofttimes shrill. The group sang Mabel Daniels' new Carol of a Rose. The selection, with words from a fifteenth century Flemish poem, was quite unexciting. The highpoint of the Choral Society's performance was a full and lively rendition of Schubert's Valses Nobles, Op. 77. The first sopranos maintained a pleasant pitch, the second sporanos did not get lost in the altos, and the results were enjoyable...
...best and altogether possible thing for the HDC to do should have been to end the production with the fourth act. This act includes the death of the artist and marks the highpoint of the evening, largely due to the performance of Robert Jordan in the part of the dying Louis Dubedat. Jordan here works at the peak of his form and with his death makes the play come to life. In the earlier parts of the play, he succeeds in showing both the lack of conscience of the man as well as his strange attractiveness, but in the death...
...game that brings diverse eggheads together. Vivienne and Charles play it remarkably alike. Last week, in their second playoff at $1,500 a point, both headed straightaway for the harder, highpoint questions, got all the answers and carried the deadlock to $2,000 a point. On a question about the six Vice Presidents of the U.S. who went on to be elected to the presidency, both minds clicked along the same track of thought, got three chronologically (Adams. Jefferson, Van Buren), jumped to the latest-Harry Truman-then to Coolidge and then agonized for a while before naming Teddy Roosevelt...
Council apathy reached a highpoint when the members refused even to make an inquiry into the Treasurer's incapacity to handle his budget. Somewhere the Domestic Scholarship item for $500 got lost in the shuffle, and nobody really seemed to care...