Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be no need on Thursday for the parting adjuration that Harvard Yard must be silent this night. The Yard will be quiet, but not in order that the squad may mend with sleep the experience of being commanded by two thousand men, haute voix, to perform a personal obligation. Under the new arrangement Harvard men who want to cheer their team before it meets Yale can still do so. The cheering will not, however, be done for a team at that moment striving to look dogged and breathe smoke. It will be done for a team that...
...hypothetical ape immortalized Charles Darwin; and last week it seemed that a no less remarkable ape-a spiritual ape-might perform the same service for Stanley Baldwin, His Majesty's Prime Minister...
...Every motor car would be headed for the scrapheap; every loudspeaker would be silent; every telephone would 'go dead'; every electric light would go out. The gloveless surgeon would be unable to perform his life-saving operations. . . . Contemporary man could not get along. . . . Life would be devoid of half its conveniences and comforts...
...Harvard Dramatic Club. The Guild, comprised of 25 players, ran a two months season at Falmouth last summer, netting a $11000 gross gain. As a result of this success, it plans to open the new $40.000 theatre next summer for two months, after which the players will perform during the winter season in New York City...
...Friday night, December 6, the musicians will perform at Hingham and on Saturday night, December 15, they give their annual fall Cambridge concert in Brattle Hall. Inasmuch as the Vocal Club does not take part in the Yale concert, the Hingham affair launches the season officially...