Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defect of the Freshman Year has hitherto been a tendency to indolence and apathy which is always the chief cause of mischievous pleasure-seeking. If the dormitories do not result in a more enjoyable, as well as a more serious and more profitable Freshman Year, we have not read human nature aright...
...Harvard playwrights -- their name is legion!" So remarked a New York manager a New days ago on being told of the production of "If You're Only Human" at the Plymouth Theatre, Boston; well might he have added, had he been endowed with the gift of prophecy, that this offering of the newest of our writers for the stage would rank with the best of the Cambridge dramatic output...
...with Billy Kinsman, the butterfly son of a self-made millionaire who of late has been "doing society" with his pompous wife. It becomes the duty of the actress to show this family their foibles, to tear the masks from their faces, to discover them unto themselves as genuinely human beings. This task takes her through the better part of four acts, sees her at one point a comedy character, at another serious. The part of Marie is the pivotal part of the play, varied and exacting. Our stage today holds, I think, but one actress capable of justly interpreting...
...Only Human," a comedy by Earl Derr Biggers '07, will be presented by the well-known William Parke players, of Pittsfield, for the first time on any stage at the Plymouth Theatre this afternoon. Only a single performance will be given, as this presentation is primarily to enable the New York managers and producers to witness the play. Robert Middlemass '09, a former president of the University Dramatic Club and a prominent figure in the Hasty Pudding and Delta Upsilon theatricals, will appear in the cast...
...first production of the play, the book has been widely read by noted persons in dramatic circles, who are unanimous in their praise of its rich humor and tender pathos. Its glimpses of stage and "high society" life are exceedingly clever and amusing and there is an intensely human atmosphere about the play which readily appeals to one. The opening act which takes place behind the scenes of a theatre is remarkable for its brilliancy and realism...