Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams will be the first House in the College to steal the Phillips Brooks House thunder and put on a Christmas party for the poor children of Cambridge, Alfred C. Parmelee '52 announced yesterday...
...work done by the committee, according to PBH secretary, Charles W. Duhig '29, is largely in the source of the children entertained. Usually parties and instruction groups take place in settlement houses in the poorer districts of Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding areas. Because of this, a great number of poor Cambridge gamins, many of whom are children of parents on relief, and who do not belong to one of the settlement houses, go without holiday celebrations...
...will draw needy spectators from the settlement houses that it works with throughout the year. PBH gave hundreds of tickets for Harvard's home football games to poor Boston youngsters this fall. "Antigone" marks the first time this practice has been extended so extensively to adults...
...most violent disagreement came in regard to Bingham's belittling of the Big Three rivalry. Not only did everyone feel that this was untrue, but in most cases it was interpreted as a sign of "poor sportsmanship" on the part of the Crimson. "Hell," one senior said, "just wait until they start winning some of these Big Three games--if they ever do--and then the rivalry will be mighty important...
...doubt Actress Cornell was sufficiently charmed by the part to shut her eye to the play. Ana allows her a fine actressy evening in black velvet and white brocade; she suffers, poor woman, almost as much as the audience. The other players have not so much roles as rigmaroles, which cannot be acted, but only hammed. Henry Daniell hams best, as the King...