Word: named
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possible for waiting players to secure courts in the exact order of their arrival on the field, and by knowing how many were ahead of them, could use the waiting time to some advantage. Of course if the player were not on the spot ready to play when his name was called he would forfeit his position. By having the names of the players in writing it would also be possible to look up in the catalogue any who were suspected of not being bona-fide students of the University...
...pioneer in instruction of musical theory in America, as an example, Professor Spalding cites a number of musicians of wide reputation who graduated from the University. Francis Boott '31, who, at his death, left a fund of $10,000 for the establishment of the prize which now bears his name, was university known as a song writer. John Knowles Paine '69, the well-known composer, founded the department of Music here. Of men still living he cities 19 composers, graduates of Harvard, who have a national reputation, among whom are men as distinguished as Arthur Foote '74, G. A. Burdett...
...Converse comes from an old English family which migrated to America in 1630, settling at Charlestown. His great-great-grandfather, whose name he bears, graduated from Harvard College in 1718. Mr. Converse himself prepared for Harvard at the English High School, but owing to temporary family reverses went into active business instead, starting in with the old National Tube Works Company of which his father was president. Mr. Converse advanced himself rapidly through all the offices and finally became president. For many years he has been president of the Liberty National Bank, the Bankers Trust Company and the Astor Trust...
Third came "Alaric Jourdan's House," and the name of Mr. Townsend is the one the scout of New York would no double quickly note. For in this little play he has written splendidly, his speeches are brief, colloquial, each furthers the action there is not a false or jarring note in all the tragic story. As this piece was far and away the best of the evening--if not the best the club has ever produced--so the acting in it was immeasurably superior to that which preceded and followed. Miss Gragg, as the wife, was strong and convincing...
...scouts are frequently sent from the managerial offices to hunt dramatic talent through the quiet byways of Cambridge. Should such a scout happen upon the Harvard Dramatic Club's spring production of four one-act plays, he would witness the work of at least one new writer whose name it would pay him to jot down in his note book. But let us begin at the beginning...