Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Saturday, the line played well on the defence but did not appear to be able to open up holes for the backs on the attack. The offense lacked the drive and versatility which have made the University backfields of recent years justly famous. If the team can show this old time power today, Harvard's stock will take a big boost. Watson and Gilman will not be in the line-up which increases the severity of today's test...
...institution which disqualifies a man who plays in a fame in which a professional takes part on either side; and there are all manner of intermediate institutions. Every amateur team takes expenses out of the gate receipts, if those receipts are sufficient; and few men young or old, whose expenses are paid lead ascetic lives. The Yale players had their expenses paid. We have no evidence that they received more and we have their own testimony that they...
...known that if victory over Princeton and Yale crowns our standards, we will troop upon the field and indulge in a good, old-fashioned gloat. And if, on the other hand, confusion on our banners wait, we sincerely hope and confidently expect that our conquerors will themselves provide the accustomed spectacle...
There is more method than madness in preceding "Androcles and the Lion" with this quaint comedy in the old French manner. After all, it does not seem so tremendous a jump from the mediaeval to the days of the Christian martyrs. By the unreality of the first, we are quite prepared for the product of Shaw's fertile imagination. He calls it a "fable play." He might better have called it a "fabulous entertainment." If one goes in glum seriousness to see a play, if one wants to imbibe the practical philosophy of a deep thinker, if one wants anything...
...only member of the original cast was Robert Paton Gibbs, who acted his old role of Gecko in a thoroughly convincing way. The minor roles were all adequately presented by a highly competent cast...