Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continuity of action. For this reason I have arranged to make the intermissions between acts and scenes of a minimum duration; this can easily be accomplished with our type of semi-permanent scenery. When the wait does not exceed half a minute the theatre is kept dark in order to maintain the flow of action and proven occasion for untimely criticism and comparison. For instance, in the ghost scene of "Hamlet," when the prince goes offstage following the Apparition. I try to preserve the immediate thought and keep the old ladies from gossiping about better and worse Hamlets that they...
...cast of each of 50,000 different stars must be studied before conclusions can be drawn, and as in order to do this 2,000 plates must be examined minutely, the problem is a most difficult one. The difficulty is increased by the fact that the stars move so slowly that it is a long time before any two plates of the same portion of sky can be compared...
...squad gathered at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon for its first workout after the grueling Purdue encounter, Coach Arnold Horween '20 ordained a policy of retracing the first steps in a gridiron education. A rigid drill in the fundamentals of football for every squad member, irrespective of rank, was the order of the afternoon...
...year, and consequently affect smaller groups of candidates, can account for the immense audiences which gather to hear Professor Lake's lectures on the Bible, Professor Kittredge on Shakespeare, Professor Lowes on the Romantic Poets, or any of the other men for whose meetings one must come early in order to secure a seat. Nor can any mere degree of scholastic fame, however just, however true, alone and unaided hold those audiences and make them return to quench again their thirst...
...students whose attitude is complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that they may listen to one possessed of an innate spark which stimulates them to pursue further the subject under discussion. No perfection of the technical details of the educational system, can recompense for an absence of this evanescent quality; and no accumulation of degrees transform a great scholar...