Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Head of the Poet Laureate" is a tale in which Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and one Giles Hemming plot, preach, and elope, respectively. The idea is well bandled; Mr. Nes is perhaps least fortunate in his dialogue, a strange mixture of modern phrases and what is apparently intended for seventeenth-century English. It may be doubted whether a Devon peasant ever could have said "how him an' me kin write verses an' ring a bell t' any tune." The story is nevertheless entertaining...
...feature of spring practice for the football team this year will be a kicking contest for the Graduate Cup, to be held on May 2 or 3. This trophy was presented to the football team in 1889 by a number of graduates, with the idea that it should be competed for annually by candidates for the University team. The cup has not been competed for since 1889, and will be awarded this year to the winner of this contest in spring practice. There will be a similar competition for the cup every year hereafter. The contestants will be assigned...
...other hand, to the adherents of the "captain supreme" idea, I can do no more than point out a few facts. In years when Harvard crews have been coached by forceful, intelligent and level-headed gentlemen, Harvard captains, many of them of the so-called great ones, have not hesitated to yield the selection...
...Book of Job" will be staged to a large extent in accordance with the modern idea of scenic art, as worked out by Granville Barker in his production of "The Trojan Women" last year. There will be a large Greek chorus, and the play will have a prologue and an epilogue. There are six characters in the drama: Job, his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, Elihu, and Satan...
...plot of "The White Elephant" deals with the efforts of three circus men from the United States to capture the sacred elephant of Siam. An American missionary, his wife and a frenzied "soul-mate" introduce complications into the plot. The whole idea is based on the old Siamese custom of setting aside an annual day on which women may select their own husbands...