Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Le Gallienne and Mr. Hampden were cited as successful at the Garrick method of verisimilitude in parts. Miss Hayes believes these rather exceptions than otherwise. Their success she thought due to the individual success of the particular actor in a particular role. Indeed, the idea of Alfred Lunt as a whimsical gentleman one week and a traffic cop or bootlegger the next, did not appeal to the erstwhile Cleopatra...
...method of scoring was similar to that used in track meets, the dormitory winning each event being awarded five points, the second receiving three, and the third one. Tennis and rowing were each divided into three competitions, points being awarded for each division. Points were awarded for the number of men in each dormitory who won their numerals...
...Clarendon, N. Y., farm boy on his notable career. At 19 he was hired by a Rochester, N. Y., museum keeper to help stuff skins. Young Akeley knew animals too well to tolerate the straw-and-stick effigies contrived by his employer. He proposed and developed the plaster cast method used today by all museums. Later he evolved perspective backgrounds, painted in oils, to show specimens in their natural surroundings. His "Fighting Bulls" (elephants) at the entrance of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought him wide fame...
...Band's photographic productions were recorded on October 28 at Brattle Hall by the new orthophopic method...
...unfortunate that the Institute should stumble under the double burden of doing its great work collecting money to make that work possible. Some method should be provided, whether by Congressional appropriation or otherwise whereby this organization shall be forever relieved from the unfitting position of a beggar supporting itself to great extent on private gifts. It is one of those very rare activities which deserve unlimited endowment from a country overflowing with wasted wealth...