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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...went down to a 3 to 1 defeat before the B. A. A. seven in the first game of the season Saturday evening. The playing of both teams was decidedly listless; accurate passing, team-work and the other ear-marks of good hockey were not in evidence save at rare intervals. The whole team appeared rather over anxious and unsteady, men getting away frequently with good chances to shoot only to lose the puck by overskating it. Some of this weakness was probably due to the soft condition of the ice, which must have hampered the players considerably in their...
Nevertheless to say that "the opinions of the professional critics are no longer of any worth even as individual opinions," and that "as it (Professional musical criticism) now exists it is utterly useless", is to imply the non-existence of the type --lamentably rare, it is true--of well-trained, level-headed professional musical critic--a manifest injustice to the few distinguished men without whom the profession would indeed be discredited...
...preparations for this production have been lavish in the extreme; but extreme refinement of taste is everywhere evident, both in stage artistry and in stage direction. Mr. Hopkins deserves support in a rare undertaking toward the best that can be done in dramatic representation...
...play, as would be expected, is not dramatic, though it has a few brief dramatic moments. It is a succession of stage pictures, pictures that are a marvel of stage craft--pictures with reality, with geographical and historical interest, and at times of rare loveliness. The sprightly opening scenes take us to the old French colony of Nova Scotia, with the spinning wheel and the quaint costumes of Acadian peasants. The soft sylvan scene representing a shore of the southern Mississippi has peculiar charm, and the weirdness of the Indian wigwam and the trapper's hut in the wilds...
President A. Lawrence Lowell, LL.B., LI.D., Ph.D., will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel today at 8.45 o'clock. Since President Lowell conducts these services only at intervals, this morning affords a rare opportunity for the students to hear him. No seats are reserved. President Lowell may be found in Wadsworth House 1 from 9 until 11 o'clock, by any who may desire to confer with...