Word: neared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sophocles time as is possible on a modern stage. Yet under Mr. David Belasco's stage management, the "Electra" will have a complete theatrical finish, with a thoroughness of stage effects, lights, casting and ensemble never before attempted in a classic play. The music and choral movements are as near to the Greek models as possible. The latter especially, are very intricate and conduce much to the spectacular effect of the play. In the cast are about twenty young women and ten young men, all students of the academy, preparing for, and in many instances, already on the professional stage...
...scheme was a bandoned. The plan of a ship railway was declared by engineers impracticable for mechanical reasons and by seamen, on account of the strain imposed on a vessels hull by lifting it out of water. The Panama canal has proved impossible on account of a river near it which cannot be controlled, and the canal by way of lake Nicaragua is left in sole possession of the field...
...each team were o count. Of these ten men, the first was to count ten points, the second nine points, and so on. The course was from the Beacon street extension out around the Chestnut Hill reservoir, then back to the starting point, then again around the reservoir, finishing near the starting point. Bailey, of Harvard, rode three machines in the course of the race and had a bad fall but managed to come in third in spite of it. The race between Greenleaf, of Harvard, and Norton, of Technology, was very close, Greenleaf winning by only about three feet...
...near approach of the championship games brings to mind the inadequate accommodations for the scorers which have been provided in past years by the management. At present there is room for only six men at the scorers' table. The need of ampler space is evident. Last year at the championship games it was often the case that ten or fifteen reporters were obliged to score the game without having the slightest conveniences for their work. We hope that the management will not allow this state of affairs to continue another year. One at least, if not two, additional tables should...
...distance, do not go home at all during the year and are naturally anxious to leave as soon as possible. Any unnecessal delay is unjust to them. It is particularly irksome to be kept by a course so unimportant comparatively as English C. English D is given a place near the beginning. and there is no reason, so far as we can see, why English C could not come the same day. There would be no conflict, for no other courses come on that...