Word: orrin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hulburd Johnston '29, of Lake Forest, Illinois, was chosen Second Assistant Manager of the University crew, according to an announcement made last night by C. H. Weymer '27, manager of the crew. Wayne Wheeler Neff '29, of Chicago was chosen class crew manager, and Orrin Porter Jackson, of New York City, manager of the 150-pound crews...
...have some of the capital. Ben, it seems, burned a barn in his early youth and has not been seen until the hour of mother's death. These are the basic entanglements. Then Jane plays the Samaritan. She keeps Ben out of jail, pays Henry's rent, and buys Orrin a pair of skates. In return for this she is tolerated. Several rifts in the course of true love occur...
...Crumbs everywhere-the intolerable product of the standardization of humanity. They think the same thoughts, eat the same food, do the same things and do them always in groups. A Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet, his wife, "a fair thick being"; Mama Crumb, passive housewife ; Pearl, "a lovely, listless sister, a too mellow fruit"; Richmiel, sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other...
Beginning with the second act, then, the play becomes distinctly amusing. The steps by which mother-ridden Eve Orrin, under the guidance of Dr. Brent Janson, gradually gains her independence--while at the same time the Doctor loses his--are skilfully and logically depicted. There is, further, a fair sprinkling of witty lines, and some good character touches. The prevalent American tendency to farce wherever possible was perhaps unduly manifest, however, and prevented Miss Roach as "Mamma" and Mr. Bosworth as "Henry Marchant"--Eve's flance by "arrangement" from putting much individuality into into their respective parts. The role...
...potential criminality which reveals itself under certain condition", Mr. Roger. Nash Baldwin '05, government political prisoner during the war, advocated the total abolishment of prisons in this country at the Liberal Club dinner held last night in the Trophy Room of the Union. Mr. Sanford Bates and Mr. Thomas Orrin, respective penal Commissioners of Massachusetts and Boston, also spoke the later refuting Mr. Baldwin and advocating the reform rather that the abolishment of prisons...