Word: notes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opinion that the courts could be more efficiently managed if players signed a waiting list posted at some convenient point on the tennis field, and as courts became vacant they should be allotted to players in their order on this list. The superintendent of the courts could note down on another list the time that each was allotted and thus be able to tell, without inspecting each time board, when the allotted hour was over. It would thus be possible for waiting players to secure courts in the exact order of their arrival on the field, and by knowing...
...Geological Conference. A Memorial Note on the Life and Scientific Work of the Late Professor A. Lawrence Rotch h.'91, by Professor R. DeC. Ward '89; "Climatic Effects of Fog on the Pacific Coast" (Illustrated); by Mr. E. G. Linsley; "Recently Acquired Meteorites and Meteorite Photographs," by Professor J. E. Wolff '79, in Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...
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...
...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...
...every institution of learning, the character of the teaching depends as much on the ability of those who learn as on the excellence of those who teach. The second aim, made far more feasible by the growing McKay fund, is to accept as professors only men of real note. Harvard University was the first in America to take up applied science. It had the first professor of engineering. Today, beyond question, especially as exponents of the professional side of Applied Science, the staff is extraordinarily strong. The Engineering School, like the Law School and the Medical School, is almost universally...