Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the 1918 finance committee held last night it was decided to make a rapid and thorough canvass of the class for funds for the class treasury. Very little has been subscribed this year and as $1,300 will be needed to cover all expenses, the money must be collected at once. The class has held two smokers as Juniors, the bills for which have not yet been paid, and the class credit has been strained to the limit. On this account it is absolutely necessary to have money to pay these bills before plans for the coming dinner...
...Crimmins '19, who will fence second on the University team, has been making rapid strides under Coach Leslabay's tutelage, and his excellent fencing in the Pennsylvania meet stamps him as a swordsman of high order, whom the favorites in the intercollegiates may well regard...
...mother, a Marquise of correspondingly ponderable emotions. More witty by play is furnished by a pair of comic married lovers. The most notable quality of this sparkling effort is its remarkable loquacity. It is one of those characteristically Gallio dramas in which after a full half-hour of rapid dialogue the heroine remarks to the hero: "Alors, mon ami, causons un peu." They then sit down comfortably and continue it for another half-hour. Words cannot describe the perfect Niagaras of conversation, the torrents of talk. And it is all declaimed in an incredible literary jargon which is like nothing...
...word as to the extremely proficient acting. It is impossible perhaps for an American wholly to understand the hard, rapid, brilliant, soullessly technical style of French acting in general. The company now at the Copley is very representative of this style. Mm. Darthy, as the eye-rolling, contralto-voiced heroine was interesting. During the big scene, when Claire tells her Ironmaster she has never loved him, I watched M. Benedict, as the latter, to see how a French husband is supposed to act under such circumstances. The result was rather funny. M. Cassin, as the Duke, did not look very...
...heartily approve the program of instruction drawn up by Captain Cordier for the training of officers at Harvard. If this course is entered upon seriously by the students, rapid and efficient results cannot help but follow...