Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Some idea of the difficulties under such it has had to work may be gained nothing the following dimensions of the stage: proscenium arch, 20 feet, inches; backline, 17 feet, 10 inches; at wings, 11 feet, 4 inches. In of the ambitions productions which Workshop attempts to stage, the size the stage on which it has to work is a handicap...
...original idea of the Workshop not only to produce the plays submit in English 47 and 47a in as professional a manner as possible, but as well give those interested in the allied arts the stage an opportunity to try, out ideas and to get some practical experience. Accordingly, a stage staff was usually organized consisting of scene designers and painters, managers, elec...
...some sub-Freshmen liked to lable them before they saw them in operation, constitute a better environment for younger boys, than the old live-where-you-please system offered. Parents, who have hesitated to send boys to live "around," although such hesitancy was due largely to a distorted idea of the pitfalls of college life, will have no such fears in sending their sons to the Freshman dormitories. The President's appeal for a new dormitory is, therefore, deserving of immediate attention, and should even come before such needed improvements as a new gymnasium and a Harvard theatre...
After all, the feeling between the two colleges is summed up in the Yale man's idea of a Harvard man, and vice-versa; and this idea is built up by small but vivid impressions like the above, together with the vaguer general knowledge which each has of the workings of the other institution. These sharper impressions have come chiefly, hitherto, from athletic events; and I cannot too strongly emphasize the stake which every man in college has in keeping those events (as well as handling questions of eligibility, etc.) high and dry above all criticism. But there are many...
Loving cups, per se, are about as useless objects as one can well imagine. They cannot be used to hold flowers, nor yet potations. As decorations they suggest proficiency at golf or the modern dances. But the idea behind them, the spirit which actuates a Yale class to present a loving cup to a Harvard class--or vice versa, more than makes up for their intrinsic uselessness. They stand for courtesy and friendship. Yet the presentation of cups to Yale or Harvard classes should not become a mere custom. A loving cup, given because it is the thing...