Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope that this wily back, who was counted on to lead the Crimson backs this fall, will after all be able to perform with the team against Yale may very likely add the rejuvenation that has been so noticeably needed during the last few games. Even if Devens is only able to play a short time, his presence will doubtless be a great encouragement, and perhaps the lateral, restored to the hands of Devens and Mays, its former masters, may not prove the mediocre offensive play that it has been against the major opponents this season...
...President Hoover . . . must contemplate the genuine possibility that he will not succeed himself. . . . The incentive to break the precedents and perform a political miracle will be very strong in President Hoover's entourage. ... If that miracle is to be accomplished, there would be just one way to go about it: by abandoning all personal interest in 1932. His one chance is to be President in his own right from now on. . . . Mr. Hoover . . . has lost a very great deal of his power. Has he not gained a great deal of freedom...
...Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman.) The Cossacks hum their own accompaniments and strum them. Conductor Jaroff's control of his men is intense, superb, exercised by a clutched hand and fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last week's debut performance complained that the substance of the songs was sacrificed to the manner of singing, that too many tricks made for monotony. But no such attitude was reflected in the box office returns. The Cos sacks gave performances in Greenwich (Conn.), Philadelphia, Montclair (N. J.), & Richmond, three more Manhattan ones, then...
...addition to the choruses from "The Gondoliers", by Sir Arthur Sullivan, which will be sung by the combined Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs, the Harvard contingent will perform the following numbers: "Jerusalem", by Sir C. H. H. Parry: "Inimici Autem", by O. Lassus: "Salamaleikum", by Peter Cornelius: "Marching", Johannes Brahms: "Turn Ye to Me", a Scottish folk song: choruses from "Pinafore", by Sir Arthur Sullivan: "The Hundred Pipers", a Scottish folk song: "Adoramus Tes Palestrina: and the coronation scene from "Boris Godounov", by Moussorgsky. The program will close with the singing of Harvard and Yale songs...
...infirmary. The College has grown so rapidly of late years that the facilities of Stillman have become inadequate. Medical theories have advanced greatly during the last decades. New ideas have been developed which the present infirmary is unable to use because of obsolete equipment. It is virtually impossible to perform a major operation in the present operating room...