Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is the only business meeting of the year and is held in conjunction with the dinner to give the undergraduates attending a good idea of the varied activities of the Phillips Brooks House. Reports will be read by the officers of the constituent societies and by the chairmen of standing committees...
...Calvert Smith's "The Theme of the Christmas Story," is ingenious in idea but clumsy in execution. Mr. Smith has never done anything quite so good as his story of the Missing Link. That conception is much too fertile to be exhausted in one episode. It affords a rich opportunity for satirizing the speculations of scientists; and what man of letters does not love to bait a scientist, especially when the latter blunders into the realm of imagination? Let therefore the Missing Link's dinosaur sneeze again, and project his master into new adventures...
...order to compare the work of the men who entered under the new plan with that of the men entering under the old plan, a summary has been made of the marks received by the Freshman class during the first half-year. A fair idea of the relation of these two groups may now be obtained, for the double system of admission has been in practice for three years. The present Freshmen had ample opportunity to understand what the requirements were...
...also be timely to consider the assumption of a certain representative function for which the College has great need,--a College orchestra? In certain other colleges the official maintenance of a representative orchestra, constant participation and faithful performance in which receives academic credit, is not a new idea, and such orchestra-work can be found listed in their catalogues among the regular courses of their Musical Departments. If such a plan were to be adopted in our College, not only would a higher standard be set by the academic supervision in the character of the program, the discipline...
This year's Pi Eta show is well worth seeing. It is a new idea set in an old scene, and the whole revitalized by means of exceedingly clever lines and good music. No opinion is so frank and unrestrained as that of the graduate who looks back on an array of former shows, good and otherwise; but if this year's play can everywhere arouse such unqualified enthusiasm as that of Thursday night, it will receive, what it well deserves--success. A. T. DAVISON...