Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...encourage, even to the point of artificially stimulating, every effort to create a lively interest in anything deeper than class elections and minor matters of athletic management. H. G. Byng, the writer of the essay, suggests an open forum similar to the Oxford Union. The suggestion is not so novel as he perhaps supposes, but it deserves the hearty approval he has given...
...purpose of the class is to development physically by a general and pleasant form of all around exercise. This is accomplished in a novel and efficient manner. Five groups of floor exercises are held, consisting of either dumb-bell or wand drills. Between these groups Mr. Schrader inserts a form of dancing, thus combining a training in the finer senses of co-ordination and rhythm with regular exercise. After the floor exercises are completed, eight or nine folk dances modified for couples, are practiced...
...oldest of strictly English comedies provides. Although these revivals have been invariably successful in the past, they have not always received the support from the student body which they deserve. Not only are they valuable to the student of the drama, they furnish one of the most amusing and novel entertainments in the undergraduate repertoire...
...value. Whether such instruction should find its place in a college, or in a school, we do not know. Certainly it tackles a problem which is real, and which must be tackled. As a recognition of this problem as a fit object of regular instruction, this course presents a novel point of view. For this reason, it is something worth noticing, worth thinking about, and worth watching...
...will play the "Faun" and Julie Opp the part of "Lady Alexandra Vancy." The play relates the experiences of a Faun mingling with modern society. The irrepressible spirit of this simple-hearted creature of nature puts to confusion the false logic of artificial society in a series of startlingly novel and highly entertaining situations, worked out with brilliant dialogue through three acts of continuously sustained interest. Mr. Faversham is singularly successful in sustaining the sense of the unhuman throughout the piece. It is an unusual play with an unusual amount of good-natured comedy...