Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...difficult task. Brilliant as the dialogue is, the play is distinctly of the "closet" type--designed especially to be read. Consequently, the "atmosphere" of the piece is a most elusive thing and extremely difficult to get across the footlights. That the performance almost succeeded in doing this is a matter for no little praise. In fact, the effort was such an admirable one, and there is so much to commend, that a would-be critic hesitates to mention any of the faults--we have too few performances of such plays in America...
...Fame and the Poet' has never been staged, having but recently been written, and the Dramatic Club has, therefore, the honor of being its first producers. The scene of this sketch is laid in modern London, and the play contains but three characters, Prattle, an empty-headed and matter-of-fact man about town; De Reves, a poet and dreamer; and Fame, an allegorical figure...
...benefited by the bequests of the late Henry Clay Frick. Here was a clear-minded, shrewd business man, a farsighted patriot, who saw how he best might serve his fellow-citizens. He realized the dire needs of America's colleges and went straight to the heart of the matter...
...simple matter it looks to be to name the country's largest university. Choice depends entirely on whether one is ready to grant that men and women enrolled in extension courses, night courses and summer schools are really university students. But in the figures below students in extension and night courses are omitted...
...will mark the first time that air racing in the colleges has been officially recognized, and if the sanction of the Massachusetts Club can be gained for the plan, its chances for success will be materially improved. The University organization hopes to induce the state club to open the matter to general discussion at the meeting, and if this is done there should be many valuable expressions of opinion from the members, all of whom have had flying experience of one kind or another...