Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Bureau of Business Research, established in 1911 by the Graduate School of Business Administration "to gather facts about business for purposes of instruction," is undertaking a work as novel as it is important. The task of investigating the various branches of the retail trade with the view of helping the small retailers to conduct their business at low cost and to cope with large and better organized competitors is no small one, but already noteworthy results have been produced. In an article entitled "Scientific Business," which appeared in a recent number of "The New Republic", Mr. Melvin Thomas Copeland...
...will participate this year in the Intercollegiate Glee Club Meet, which is to be held in Carnegie Hall, New York, on the evening of Saturday, February 27. The other colleges which will compete are the same as last year: Columbia, Dartmouth, and Pennsylvania. The concert last year was a novel event in American musical circles, arousing a great deal of interest both among critics and among the general public. Equal success is looked for in the future. The concert is a competitive affair, each club singing three pieces different in nature, and a prize being awarded...
Following is a list of the Workshop productions to date in the order of their production: "Lina Amuses Herself," by Fenimore Merrill; "Educated," by Miss Winneck; "Molly Make-Believe," an adaptation by Miss Eleanor Hallowell Abbott of her successful novel (repeated for two public performances); "Home, Sweet Home," by Miss Violet B. Robinson; "The Romance of the Rose," by Sam Hume and T. M. Spellman, 2d, '13; "Maitre Patelin," a revival of the old French farce; "The Call of the Mountain," by E. C. Ranck '12; The Revesby Sword Play; "The Chimes," by Miss Elizabeth McFadden; "Yvon, the Daring...
This is the second comedy that the Workshop has staged this year, the first being "The Only Girl in Sight," by Miss Caroline Budd. The third bill, scheduled for some time late in February, will be composed of one-act pieces. The novel work of adequately staging original plays in the Workshop is continually advancing. The last two performances have led to a more thorough organization of the scenery and property departments. T. C. Browne '15 is in charge of the scenery and lighting of this performance, and E. A. Whitney '17, assisted by E. P. Goodnow...
...novel innovations have been added to the list of events on the program of the annual spring relay tournament of the University of Pennsylvania. They are in the form of relay races, but in the first one the man who runs first will cover a quarter of a mile, the second man a half-mile, the third, three-quarters of a mile, and the last a mile, while in the other race the first two men will run a furlong each, the third a quarter-mile, and the fourth a half-mile. These events have been added in order...