Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capers of the Fred Stone school. Consequently, only the sureness and restraint of Mr. Brian's playing prevented much of the buffoonery from being quite out of place. There is difference between the old comic opera style and the musical comedy antics of today. "The Chocolate Soldier" requires the older type of acting, and fortunately most of the company recognized this regardless of the obvious efforts of the producer to instill a little "pep" into the performance...
...usual at the Copley when there is a situation to be saved, Mr. Cliva saves it. His portrayat of the gentle older brother was so graceful and so real that it gave the play dignity that it really does not posses. Mr. Pape as the tyrannical John Cordways, did well with a hard part, that was not developed consistently by the dramatist, as did Miss Willard as Lady Clarissa. Mr. Turner as Robert Dalman, Cordway's secretary, is as yet a very amateurish performer, who although he tries hard, rarely seems either to get out of himself...
...undergraduates, and could maintain their contact fairly easily. At the same time, by their interest in affairs academic and intellectual, they would set an example which could not fail to have its effect, and they would also be able to further the acquaintance between the student and the older members of the Faculty. The case is well put in an editorial printed in the CRIMSON...
...love of knowledge and the desire to so train himself as to extend that knowledge and beautify a world too conscious of its more unpleasant aspects. Develop such a spirit, and America would no longer suffer from a dearth of artistic genius; and could take her place with the older nations at the table of the arts as well as in the factory and scientific laboratory...
These dormitories appear to be of two types--the older, which lie nearer the center of the university site, and the newer type, at a considerably greater distance. I shall describe first a building of the former type. The rooms are usually about ten by six feet in size, and eight feet high. In the walls there are sockets which indicate that they once supported some sort of projections or shelves. These no doubt were used as auxiliary sleeping quarters. Thus four students must have been accommodated in one of these tiny rooms. In addition there were similar rooms, without...