Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Before showing the stereopticon views Professor Lowell gave an introduction in which he criticised methods of instruction in the sciences. Progress in science is necessarily a generation ahead of the text-book knowledge of its day, for the minds that conceived it must first have grown up to make possible its begetting. To impart such to the generation that follows is to up it as speedily as possible in the way of making its step forward...
...organization is not unlikely to spend itself in the efforts of the first year or two; and when the impetus of novelty has gone, is liable to fall. But such fears with respect to the Dramatic Club will beset no one who last evening witnessed the performance of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander." To make a Cambridge audience laugh at anything heartily means success. To make it shout with laughter at some things that are dear to it, is a triumph; and this "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander" achieved. That the absurdities of western and of Newport society should amuse...
...Dramatic Club will give the first production of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander," its fifth annual play, in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a farce-comedy in three acts by Miss L. R. Stanwood, a Radcliffe student. Tickets at $1.50 and $1 can be purchased at Herrick's, the branch store of the Co-operative, at the door of Brattle Hall, and from H. R. Bowser '12, Randolph 55. By a special clubbing agreement the Dramatic Club and the Hasty Pudding Club have placed on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's passes at $1.75 which...
...play, a farce-comedy in three acts by Miss L. R. Stanwood, a Radcliffe student, is called "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander." It will be given in Brattle Hall on December 12 and 13, and in Jordan Hall, Boston, December 16. Tickets at $1.50 and $1 each can be purchased from H. R. Bowser '12, Randolph 55, Herrick's ticket agency and the Co-operative...
...Cambridge. The comedy is brightest, most observant, and most entertaining in the act that assembles playfully and good-naturedly what may be called its Boston collection. A thread or two of intrigue and deceit holds together its picturing of character and manners; the stages of Mrs. Smith's progress give it its movement; and seldom does Miss Stanwood lose her light hand. Such a satirical comedy of social "actualities," it is safe to say, no dramatic club in an American college has dared to attempt...