Word: performed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other acts on the bill suffer in comparison with the "Two Vagrants" but all are entertaining. Mr. Levy, a cartoonist, draws some unusual sketches Miss Ruby Norton presents a repertoire of songs which are well received; and the Equilli brothers perform some equilibrium stunts which leave the audience gasping...
...famed naturalist, Ernest Thompson Seton, transforms the theatre into a forest for the moment by his moose calls and his tales of bear hunting. Craig Campbell, tenor, gives a few classical and popular ballads; Burt Gordon and Gene Ford contribute the familiar jackassieal singing lesson, and Ryan and Ryan perform a remarkable elog with shoes four feet long...
...second string players were given opportunity to perform in the second session, but failed to make the most of their chance, no tallies being recorded to their credit...
...between the governing board and the members of the faculty is not the relation of employer and employee, or superior and inferior, of master and servant, but "one of mutual cooperation for the promotion of the scholars' work." Both these elements in the university community have their task to perform, the one a task of expert character, and the other of a non-expert perhaps public, character. But the final authority, as President Lowell boldly says, must ever be the non-professional element, not only because it controls the pursestrings and is responsible for the financial management of the university...
When we are accustomed to talk of billions, the dollars and cents of Mr. Baker's drive for soldiers is not of such great importance. But it is disconcerting to have a man in such a high position perform so unreasonably in the question of disarmaments and economy. Disarmament is a problem to be solved by men who, like General Pershing, understand more than the military side of the matter. It is almost as bad to excite Congressmen into frenzied legislation wiping out an army, as to continue in the present extravagance. Secretary of War Baker has acted...