Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back to the chemical simile, analysing the undergraduate in terms of percents, it is the individual quality that outbalances all the rest. If the college is a crucible into which is poured the raw product of heredity and environment, what is it that influences most profoundly the result which emerges after four years? Is it the crucible, or the elements which made up the original compound, or is it rather the reactions of the compound itself? Home, school, and college all contribute to the make-up of "that painful figure--the college man;" but in the last analysis none...
...railroads as we see them today", he continued, "are the product and climax of a hundred years of improvement and progress. In the beginning, the government refrained from restraining them in any way, and in many cases gave bounties to hasten the work of building and extending them, but gradually, more and more restrictions have been put upon them until now the government controls even rates and working hours". Mr. Hines went on to enumerate the different stages through which this development has been reached...
Much heralded, and burdened with a host of favorable criticisms, "The Emperor Jones" comes to the Selwyn under auspices that would prove fatal to any but the most robust product. Over praise is the only complaint from which it suffers. When one goes to the theatre expecting to see "America's greatest drama," and to come away with hair on end, feeling like the proverbial jelly, it is just a little disappointing to receive only a moderate thrill, and to have the guilty suspicion either that your ideas of the greatest drama are all wrong, or that someone has exaggerated...
...give evidence of their great versatility. Alfred Sutro's "The Choice", the play now being presented at the Copley, is a story of England after the war dealing with the recreation of British "normalcy" and with a great many things besides. As might be expected, such an all-inclusive product contains very interesting ideas, but also a great deal of hackneyed sentimentality, and the latter so outweighs the really worth-while material, that it seems a great pity that the resourceful Jewett Company should choose such a vehicle. Polished acting, painstaking characterizing of parts, careful staging such as "The Choice...
...unexperienced as well as the experienced in summoning the candidates. Without doubt track offers exercise with an element of rivalry and no small chance of reward, to any man who is willing to work faithfully for a while every afternoon. Incidentally a successful team is usually the product of a large squad...