Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Dramatic Club has proved, they are sometimes far from good. "The Young Person in Pink" is certainly in the latter class, lending itself at best in no very definite way either to acting or to production--for Hyde Park is not the easiest spot for the Copley to orient to its red asbestos curtain--nor is Lady Tonbridge's Charleston arena, nee home. The only thing it really adopts itself to is Mr. Mowbray's smile that was quite satisfying. Yet the best of smiles cannot cure the pain of the last lines. Those remain forever--shouted...
...large majority of these mildews which are so destructive to food plants come from the Orient," Professor Weston went on, "and after I left the Philippines I was to go and study them in Formosa, India, Java, and China. I however, came to the United States, and after studying in various localities. I came here to Harvard...
...Intercollegiate Glee Club competition. The current number shows plainly that the alumni have no intention of leaving the subject until everything has been said as many times as possible. Only the one man Harvard Club in Singapore is yet to be heard from; and, since mails from the Orient are notoriously slow, this defect may be remedied at any time...
Scarcely a college in the land but has its little son of Nippon, its quiet Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity...
Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...