Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they must be crowded into the already desperately crowded 47 Workshop Room in Massachusetts Hall. Despite this, the Club has been able to do what no other University Dramatic Club has done,--successfully to write, stage, and act its own plays, in productions that have furnished a starting point for many of the best men in the dramatic world...
...Mollusc" is a light comedy, with a weak, sentimental ending, but has the virtue of illustrating the all too prevalent type of character who struggles to stand still. In order to bring out this point, both the plot and the acting are a good deal over done. George Arliss himself seems just a bit unnatural, and his conversations with Philip Merrivalle, the weather beaten and long suffering husband of the "Mollusc", holds the attention but seems to lack essential characteristics of reality...
...talk of exclusive groups of big colleges, leagues and federations, one important point seems to have been over-looked. That is the so-called practice game, which to my mind is responsible for much that is unsportsmanlike in college athletics. I have in mind football, particularly, but the criticism applies in some degree to other sports as well...
...prohibitionist you now say that any effort to impede the success of the federal amendment will drive the country to bolshevism. If you are on the other side of that question your point is that the failure to give people their liquor will turn them willy-nilly to bolshevism. We received many letters on the daylight savings movement in which the adherents of each side wanted it, not for their own comfort or convenience, but in order to save the country from bolshevism. The farmers would surely go over to that dread doctrine if the city dwellers luxuriously carved...
...football game has been arranged with the University of Virginia for October 25. This game will take the place of the game with West Point which was called off due to the disapproval of General March...