Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over, slipped ashore, was met by Partner Thomas W. Lamont, and descended in a freight elevator. For the past month he has been cruising in the Mediterranean aboard his yacht Corsair. Three days after he landed Mr. Morgan momentously fulfilled a duty which he has often promised to perform but which had heretofore escaped him. He began to serve on the Nassau County Grand Jury at Mineola...
...Hassan" to a Greater Boston stage for the first time, the Harvard Dramatic Club has undertaken what is known professionally as a "heavy production". At Brattle Hall last evening there appeared to be innumerable scenes, many specially engaged actors and a play without much doubt the most difficult to perform which the Club has attempted in some time. The performance last night, in no better nor no worse condition than any professional production on the night before the opening, gave promise of several interesting characteristics. Most outstanding was the promise of more sustained acting than the Club has shown...
...session. In it, President Coolidge disapproved a House bill to create a part-civilian board to supervise national rifle matches. The President said he was advised the bill was unconstitutional since it took from the War Department a matter pertaining to national defense and established a nonFederal agency "to perform Federal functions at Federal expense...
...Student Council is no longer needed to carry out the primary aims of its originators, the question arises as to whether there is, or might be, any essential function for it to perform. During the last few years it has issued a number of reports on various matters of educational or social import. These reports have on the whole been capably handled and have been productive of much discussion and some practical results. Their chief weakness has lain in their over-ambitiousness. A complete system of educational reform drawn up by a Student Council committee may have much value...
Another function which has always pertained to the Student Council, but which will admit of great improvement in its performance, is that of representing the undergraduate body in relations with other colleges or with the outside world. The occasions on which the undergraduate body as a whole at Harvard requires some definite representative are rare. But they are likely to arise at any time and for this reason make the existence of a representative essential. If relations should become strained between Harvard and one of its traditional rivals, if certain students were guilty of conduct unworthy of their Harvard affiliation...