Word: playing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hold their second spring trials shortly before the recess and will at that time take on a number of new men. Prospective candidates for the Glee Club are expected to bring solos with them and men who expect to try out for the instrumental clubs should be able to play one of the following instruments: banjo, banjeaurine, 'cello, mandolin, mandolin, saxaphone, trap-drums, or violin...
Emphasis, it would seem, may thus be centered upon just what the desire of our collegiate authorities is: do they wish their representative teams to play the game up to the hilt, or to play bumble puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride...
...operating to defeat the primary purposes of essential university work as already set forth? In other words, does not a boy, whether he be a Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit of his ability. Therein, I should say, we exemplify the American university spirit, or, to put it more broadly, the national spirit...
...second play will be "The Play room," a fantasy by Miss Doris Halman, the author of "Rusted Stock" and "Will of the Wisp," which were produced by the 47 Workshop in 1916. The cast of "The Playroom" is as follows: Lisberth, Marguerite Barr Fanny, Betty La Mont Ethel, Mrs. Rankin Thomas, Thomas Loudon Cecily, Vianna Knowlton 1920 Roger, Richard Lloyd...
...Flitch of Bacon," a play of the seventeenth century by Miss Eleanor Hinkley, will close the program. Two of Miss Kinkley's plays have already been produced by the 47 Workshop. The cast of "A Flitch of Bacon is as follows: A Country Squire, R. T. Bushnell '19 Luess, Mr. Collins Adam, Edward Massey Susan, Beulah Auerbach Jack, N. Cabot '22 Hal, F. F. Mood '21 Dick, W. Butterfield...