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After the curtain-raiser, the audience felt that the Dramatic Club's new policy of producing foreign plays was going to be a success; it was relieved to find that the Club was able to live up to its pre-war standards. But it was not pre pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring...
...first of his 1919-20 readings on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union. He will read selections from Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. This is practically the first public reading for University students which has been delivered by Professor Copeland since pre-war days...
...collected by the Boston Transcript from the returns of more than 60 institutions representing every type of higher education in every part of the country. It is larger by 42 per cent than in 1918 and larger by 21 per cent than in 1916, the record-breaking year of pre-war prosperity. So immense and insistent has been the flow of men, that for many colleges the old-time problem of how to attract more students has given way to the problem of how to take care of the students who want to enter...
...participating in games conducted under strict physical requirements. Defenders of the college sport pointed out that with one exception the victims were players who entered the game without expert training. The small number of fatalities this year was remarkable, as the game was played even more extensively than in pre-war days...
Practice for the Gym team has now begun regularly, and in a few days a meeting will be held to elect a captain. R. F. Wiley '20 is the only undergraduate in College who has been on a pre-war gym team, but there is a great deal of promising new material on hand. Coach schrader expects many more candidates to report for the team, now that the football season is over. Practice for the candidates will be held regularly three afternoons from 5 to 6.30 o'clock and one evening a week...