Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writing composition, he should be kept steadily at it, and at the same time should be made to take an interest in what he is doing, and should be impressed with the importance of having something to say, and of saying that something in an intelligible and a natural manner...
...that the lacrosse team has brought one championship back to Cambridge it seems but fair to ask the college to testify its appreciation in some more substantial manner than by mere praise. The association has been put to heavy expense in arranging the tour just ended, while its receipts have been smaller this year than is customary, partly owing to the difficulty of obtaining a respectable number of paying spectators at the games played upon our unfenced grounds, and partly from the fact that the undergraduate purse has showed great reluctance to loose its strings when called upon to help...
...first scene was very realistic. The howling mob carried the spectator back to the days when the first Caesar ruled in Rome. But the tribunes who dispersed the mob seemed to feel the oppressive circumstances of their first appearance, and did their appointed task in a highly "stagey" manner. In the scene which brought the entire company before the audience. the action was fairly effective, although some crudeness was visible. Mr. Cummings, as Caesar, while fairly preserying the austere dignity of the Roman failed somewhat in the very difficult work required of him by appearing too unrelaxed and imperial...
...extremely effective, and did its work in a very mob-like manner. The costuming of the actors was good throughout...
...final heat was started in a most careless manner. Bonine was several yards ahead of the line when the word was given. Although the attention of the starter was called to the fact, he refused to set them back, but fired his pistol, sending the men off. Baker was behind at the time and so failed to catch either of the first two men, though running much faster than either. Bonine won in 10 3-5s. and Derickson was second...