Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College life. First he spoke of the benefits which a man should get from a college education, saying that the social opportunities were a very great advantage. He dwelt on the power of growth, both physical and intellectual, as being essential and to be developed evenly. One should not overdo any special subject but should try all. Specialization is to be avoided in college. A man should make his acquaintance as large as possible, and his friends should not all be of one set. By making friends with men from every section you not only benefit yourself but also...
...hang on the plot, which is slender, but on its unusual scenes, its swift action, its stinging satire and the spirited delineation of character. The performance last night was remarkably smooth, the cast of thirty-four persons being of more than average ability. C. B. Wetherell '08 played Overdo, the pompous justice of the peace, with signal success. H. R. Shipherd '08 was successful throughout in his rendering of Waspe, the long-suffering man servant and brought down the house in the amusing stock scene by his clever acting while effecting his escape from the stocks. F. A. Wilmot...
...discloses him in the stocks where he finds Justice Overdo and Waspe, who has been sent there for fighting. The stupid watchmen get into a fight with a harmless madman, and the distinguished culprits escape. This act is further enlivened by a fight between two gallants, Quarlous and Winwife, for the hand of Grace Wellborn...
...last act the toyman presents in a puppet show a ridiculous parody on the story of Hero and Leander. The zealous Busy rushes in to pull down the puppets, but, consenting to a debate with them, he is utterly routed by their arguments. Justice Overdo then reveals his identity in order to stop the show, and reads off the list of misdoings he has discovered. All the "enormities" are turned upon him, and he finds he has been mistaken in every individual case. Conciliated, he seeks reconciliation with the falsely accused by a general invitation to go home with...
Induction, C. B. Wetherell '08John Littlewit, T. Eaton '08Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, J. C. Bills, Jr., '09Winwife, F. Izard '08Tom Quarlous, O. L. M. H. Lyding '09Bartholomew Cokes, F. A. Wilmot '10Humphrey Waspe, H. R. Shipherd '08Adam Overdo, C. B. Wetherell '08Lanthorn Leatherhead, J. A. Eccles '10Ezekiel Edgworth, L. R. Martineau, Jr., '09Nightingale, R. M. Middlemass '09Mooncalf, C. W. Burton '08Dan Jordan Knockem, A. W. Sampson '09Val Cutting, G. A. McKay '08Trouble-All, R. H. Smith '10Haggise, C. W. Burton '08Bristle, F. S. Howe '08Filcher, C. E. Hale '10Sharkwell, J. W. Baker '08Northern, C. E. Hale '10Puppy...