Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matter of training they feel that much has been accomplished by the adoption of Mr. Lathrop's ideas, and they hope to effect still further reforms by shortening the period of hard football work and by providing for a more gradual introduction to the active work. They recommend also the abandonment of the summer practice...
...rowing for the past two weeks on account of a sprain, once more joined the crew. He rowed at No. 4 in place of Manning. The crew is using no slide at present. The body work of the men is well together and their watermanship noticeably good for this period of the rowing season...
...Baker said that the Elizabethan period was distinctly a dramatic epoch. At school boys were obliged to study Latin plays, and sometimes used to act in them. At the university great interest was taken in dramatic art; and when the Queen visited Oxford or Cambridge, she bestowed a prize on the one who wrote the best Latin play. This sort of training naturally produced a coterie of skilful playwrights...
...actors of the Elizabethan period were very fine, though somewhat more ranting than is customary at the present day. The women's parts were all taken by boys. Choir boys from cathedrals used to come to court and give theatrical performances. The most promising were taken into the large companies...
...scenery is a much disputed matter. The old idea is that there was none at all; but Mr. Day, the architect who is at work on the scenery for the "Silent Woman," thinks there was. In the first place the books of the theatrical managers of the Elizabethan period contain items of painted cloths, trees, and other appliances. Mr. Day says the depth of the stage was twenty-five feet, too great to be spanned by one roof, hence the two roofs. The space concealed by the slanting roof was used to arrange and lower scenery...