Word: older
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...private performance, the play was most kindly received; and some of the older officers of the College, who were present at this performance, have thought the play worthy of serious academic recognition. At their suggestion, the Department of English has invited the company who acted in private to reproduce it at Cambridge. To those who care for the history of the English drama, this performance may offer a not quite usual interest. For it is a serious effort, on the part of a modern student, to revive many of the effects which were characteristic of the English stage...
Memorial ought to be an ideal dining-hall. It needs only better board to make it so. If the Foxcroft Club had half as commodious or attractive quarters, it would then be a formidable rival in popularity to the older institution and there would be some justification for keeping up the payment of "head-money." It is a fact that for fifteen or twenty cents one can order any day a much better lunch at Foxcroft than is usually served at Memorial...
...cast is made up almost entirely of Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Although the cast is composed wholly of men, the play is to be given seriously, as a classic; and the demand that has come for a matinee performance on the twentieth for children shows that older people are not the only ones interested...
This is a great change but it is merely going back to the old idea of a friendly rush. It meets the objection to football clothes and will appeal to the older graduates as being just what they used...
Hockey will soon be practiced with a view to meeting Canadian and other teams who play this, the older game...