Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest partly of economy but chiefly of the greater hapiness of the College, it is further proposed that members of the House Committees occupy the rooms and perform the duties of Resident Tutors, in turn freeing them for service at the steam-tables and, if that prove inefficient, as porters. We shall be glad to elaborate the details of this plan, contenting ourselves here with a sketch of large principles. John H. Finley, Master of Eliot House Howard E. Hugo, Senior Tutor
...members (800 last year) found more and more ways of helping students and people. A ticket agency operates to save undergraduates time and expense in reserving seats for plays and shows in Boston theatres. A speakers group was formed to recruit entertainers and speakers to lecture and perform, free of charge, for the experience, to any group that wanted them...
...hope that the Corporation will reconsider its method of protecting Harvard's Good Name in the light of the present times when everything from the United Nations to a Senate crime investigation is commercially sponsored. The Corporation should recognize that any undergraduate organization requested to perform on any sponsored program is invited requested to perform on any sponsored program is invited because of its own talents, not because its name includes the word "Harvard." It should recognize that, because the University is not responsible for the actions of undergraduate organizations, it has no right to limit the uses to which...
...other stars--Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor, and Audrey Totter--perform their bit parts adequately and usually evoke additional pathos. But the only tears really worth shedding are for Wald and Krasna, who wasted so much talent on such an incredibly trite plot...
...mark their churches, publish church literature, hold services in private homes, conduct recreational clubs or parochial schools, or become army officers, teachers or lawyers, and they have trouble getting married. "In the great city of Madrid, there are only two judges who have the conviction and the courage to perform civil marriages for couples, one member of whom has broken with the Roman Catholic faith...