Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Barker," by Mr. R. H. Sessions, emphasizing the vitality, as opposed to the "classicism" of Greek drama. Mr. Sessions, however, takes it for granted that too much of Mr. Barker's productions is "emotionally rather than archaically correct." No doubt the costumes of the barbarians were fantastic to the point of humor; but why the caviling at the temple? The temple was not a Parthenon, certainly; it was of the Minoan stage of culture, and as such it was quite correct...
...literature courses most men do not read literature; they read about literature. They take their general point of view from the instructor's lecture; and before the examinations they devour histories of literature, and learn the general nature of the work they are supposed to have read. In many cases, too, the examinations are such that this sort of information will enable one to obtain a good mark. Thus it is not a definite and personal knowledge and appreciation of literature which is the rule, but a vague and second-hand idea of its nature...
...these teams, the University nine has gained victories over seven and has lost to only two, to West Point and Brown. Yale, also, has defeated seven of these teams, but has lost to five. The Tufts, Syracuse, Army and Navy nines, which have closed their seasons with excellent records, met very few of the teams named above, and as a result their performances are not so remarkable. Won Lost Per Cent. Tufts, 18 2 .900 Army, 18 3 .857 Syracuse, 18 4 .818 Brown, 17 4 .810 Harvard, 19 5 .791 Lehigh, 13 5 .722 Navy, 16 7 .696 Columbia...
...indications point to an unusually successful season next year. The schedule, as tentatively drawn up already includes, in addition to the annual dual concerts with Princeton at Princeton on November 5, and with Yale in Boston on November 19, trips to Providence, R. I., Fall River, Keene, N. H., and two trips to New York, as well as probable trips to Portland, Me., Albany, N. Y., and Montclair, N. J. There will also be a large concert and dance at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, sometime during March, and a number of smaller concerts in the vicinity of Boston...
...From the point of view of the undergraduate, the most interesting and significant article is entitled "John Barleycorn and John Harvard," by R. E. Connell '15, which takes up the subject of drinking in the University. The author covers the situation sanely and accurately, describing conditions in Cambridge, and ending with a strong appeal for the regulation of drinking conditions in Cambridge...