Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stedman Noble '49, pianist, will perform tonight at 7 o'clock in the first of a series of short, informal Friday evening music recitals in the Smith Halls Common Room...
Sirs: After 20 years' service in the regular Navy as an enlisted man, and after having seen both regular and reserve officers perform in time of war, I am in favor of abolishing the Naval Academy entirely. Young college boys fresh out of school learned the ropes faster, appeared much better educated than the general run of Academy graduates. What is more important: they could think...
...nature of Kent's success was not an unmixed pleasure to the fathers of the Holy Cross, whose rules require that they should eat and live for the most part separately from the world, coming from seclusion only to perform certain tasks. When Father Sill's broken health forced him to retire, Holy Cross provided Kent with a successor in young, studious Father William Scott Chalmers, but in 1943 decided to hand grownup, self-sufficient Kent over to its trustees. Father Chalmers, by special permission, stayed on as headmaster. Father Chalmers soon discovered the impossibility of fitting...
...Argonauts boldly pushed on through the dangerous Hellespont and entered the Black Sea. To their dismay, Hercules deserted, was later summoned home to perform another of his mighty labors. "Holy Serpents!" he growled. "Tell me what [it is] this time?" The job-cleaning the Augean Stables-didn't take Hercules long. Afterwards, he stayed around with the high priestess of Lydia-who in due time bore male triplets. In gratitude, the priestess taught Hercules how to spin, and tied up his hair in blue braids; he was crazy about it, and admitted confidentially that he had always wanted...
...Take an Edict." King Clode summoned the Royal Recorder. His Majesty dictated: "Write it plain and write it clear: No son of mine shall wed a deer." But the smart princess had already given King Clode's sons, Princes Thag, Callow and Jorn, deeds of valor to perform in rivalry for her hand-or, it might be, hoof...