Word: manner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Halstead, president of the Yale "Courant," contributes a good description of the Yale dormitory system, and points out the advantages of having all classes housed by the college; advantages which we are gradually learning to recognize. With the unifying of the classes in this manner, could come a broader use of the custom now being started by the Freshmen, as described by Dr. Davison in "Singing at the Freshman Dormitories." Choral singing, like athletics, is meant for the many, but is here confined to the few. The Glee Club meets a want, but only partially fills...
Another of the most important economizing plans which has been recently put into effect is co-operation of departments in such a manner that like supplies are bought at competitive contractors' prices, thus accomplishing a saving of many thousands of dollars. For example, the eight thousand barrels of flour used for the hospitals are now bought in one contract, instead of in installments as formerly. On this item alone $30,000 is saved. We require more than this, however, we must get not only co-operation within the individual department, but co-operation of all the city departments collectively...
...comedy of unusual merit, having for its central theme the fulfillment of a spinster's belated romance through the schemes of a pretty flower girl. "Toy Soldiers" is a "war play" written from a novel viewpoint and portraying the lighter side of the present European crisis in an amusing manner. In con- trast to the comedy of the other two plays "Garafelia's Husband" is in a more serious vein. In a number of strong scenes it pictures the love of a New England wife for her dying husband, a love which remains firm through every crisis and which...
Probably the most distinguished performance in the number is the myth contributed by Mr. Fairbanks. Under a rubric from Plato (unfortunately misprinted), in a manner than just avoids preciosity on the one hand and banality on the other, he describes the soul that lingers this side of the river of Lethe, unwilling to forget--what? A kiss. At last she resigns herself, compelled to know that "all souls turn to Lethe at the last, because it is not worth while to remember what others forget...
...German singers in that, in addition to his unusual acquaintance with the traditions of the role, he is a singer who follows the principles of song triumphantly laid down by Jean de Reszke, when he proved that Wagner could be sung beautifully as well as declaimed in a dramatic manner...