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...whether it is not better rather to discourage than promote the public exhibition. As a rule, debating, prize speaking, and declamation are not based on and made subservient to a prolonged systematic training, but are generally spasmodic exhibitions by which a school or other organization is brought into the lime-light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIOUS PHASES OF ORAL ENGLISH | 12/12/1913 | See Source »

...Hall, the gift of Mr. Wallace T. Robinson, of Boston, which will be unique among college social centres in that its purpose is primarily to afford a home for all undergraduate non-athletic interests. It is to be a handsome two and a half story building of brick and lime-stone, situated on the campus. On the first floor will be ample offices for the publications, the Musical Clubs, the Band, the Dramatic Club, the Debating Union and other undergraduate organizations. The second floor is to be reserved for a proposed honorary society which will recognize literary and artistic distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH'S SOCIAL CENTRE | 2/7/1913 | See Source »

...ways will be of grass with about ten feet of turf at the end to jump from, and will be bounded by broad white lines of lime. The object of a second set of pits is to save the others for competitions and meets, and to keep them in better condition. In case of a large number of entries in any competition both sets of pits may be used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Additional Jumping Pits in Stadium | 3/19/1908 | See Source »

...attempt, in rather uneven verse, to give atmosphere to a place which for most of us has not even tradition. Taken all in all the number is a good antidote to take against winter cheerlessness. If it has no warm sunshine it has often a fairly successful lime-light substitute...

Author: By W. R. Castle., | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 1/19/1907 | See Source »

...scene into woodland illusion. This part of the arrangements has been most skilfully executed by Mr. F.L. Olmsted '94. The auditorium and entrances will be electrically lighted until the hour of the performance. The stage and actors will be made visible in all parts of the grounds by lime lights which will be so managed as to create an almost perfect effect, judging from recent performances at Wellesley and New York by this same company. The cast of "As You Like It" will be as follows: Duke, living in banishment, Henry Hadfield Jaques, Amiens, A Lord, attending on the Duke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OUTDOOR PLAYS TODAY. | 6/1/1903 | See Source »

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