Word: pit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plays if present plans come through. An assortment of Oregon tactics is on the way East and is due to arrive tomorrow Coach Knox will then collect a team from his squad of second-string men, drill it in the new plays for one afternoon, and the next day pit it against the University team in a dummy scrimmage...
...audacity to meet the needs of the present production. But none of the action which has made this the longest lived English comedy has been sacrificed, with the result that the laughter rung form a modern audience may be, comparable, if not equal, to the mirth expressed by the pit in the days of Queen Elizabeth...
...percent. I should like, for instance, fair play and frank speech on the words "a six-column paper would need as much support from the banks of Boston as the Magazine now receives from a certain type of 'instructor.'" In short, if the CRIMSON keeps on digging its own pit as rapidly as it has in such editorials as this reply, sooner of later the fall is bound to come. ALAN H. CLILLTON...
Many brilliant and mystifying features distinguish the program. Pvt. Durlin, masquerading as Senior Caruso, charms the audience with his vocal melodies; but Pvt. Hays '19 promptly arouses the pit to a blood-thirsty state when he bursts forth in tenor; howover, justice is soon done when is is mercifully hypnotized by a hysterious person who is said to be in close connection with the spirit world. Harry Lauder is very ably personified by William Cantor; while Pvt. Cody makes an excellent rube. A championship bout between battlers Connolly and Newton brings the show to an exciting finish...
...list, and we know too well now the predilections of a certain friend in Boston who provides us with front row seats with an air of a charitable man. The galleries will probably come into their Elizabethan popularity again, and we shall learn to despise that vulgar place, the pit. Sleeping car reservations need hardly be mentioned. They follow along with all the other luxuries...