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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Iphigenia in Tauris' especially is a live, human play with strong tendencies toward comedy--it is a romantic drama, with the climax at the end of the second act when Iphigenia recognizes her brother Orestes just as she is at the point of officiating at his sacrifice. The third act deals with the escape of the pair from Tauris, which they accomplish by fooling the old king who has a special hobby for human sacrifices...
...hold a separate tournament within each dormitory, and then to pick a four or six-man team from the results of each tournament, to compete in a triangular series. No members of the 1918 squad will be eligible for these tournaments. Members of the class who do not live in the dormitories, but who wish to play, will be assigned to Standish Hall...
...Advocate selected "the war" as a fit subject for its contest doubtless because the war is at present a "live" topic, and one which might well summon the budding genius to his best. The judges, in picking out the prize poem, acted without reference to creed or country. Their business was simply to determine the best poem among the ten or fifteen submitted, judged as a poem. Because it was a good sonnet, and not because it was anti-German or anti-anything, "Gott Mit Uns" received the prize. "Dieu Avec Nous," written with equal skill, would have received equal...
When undergraduates handle a "live" subject such as the war, they can hardly be expected--as individuals--to be otherwise than partisan. When the leader of a nation at war says "God is on our side," thereby implying that He is not on anyone else's he at least courts satirical comment from those individuals who believe in an impartial Diety. "Gott Mit Uns" is the expression of one man's opinion, honored with a prize because it is well put together, and not because it takes issue with Professor Meyer's people. It is not a Harvard prize poem...
...gowns will be made tomorrow morning. From then until Class Day the Seniors are urged to wear them daily between the hours of 8 and 1, as this has always been the custom of the graduating class for years past and there is no doubt that 1915 will live up to the precedent set by the former classes...