Word: readings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...imperfectly worked, and the utmost good-will was necessary in order to obtain more than momentary illusion. Yet the audience, if puzzled, was clearly interested and, for the most part, sympathetic. The second act showed substantial improvement. The actors were more at home in their parts, the lines were read better, and the wit of the dialogue more frequently crossed the footlights. The gradual rise in tone, the gaining of the serious upon the comic element, which is one of the most marked features of the play, became distinctly perceptible. This improvement was sustained through the third act. Here...
...notes will be permitted but men must not read their speeches. Not only logic and clear presentation of the subject, but general knowledge, manner of delivery, and literary style of the competitor, will be considered in the judging of the speeches. The judges will be A. H. Elder '08, A. N. Holcombe '07, P. B. Kennedy '09. All members of the University, who have not handed in their names, but wish to compete, can enter at the trials...
Professor I. L. Winter '86, assistant professor of Public Speaking, will read "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens in Appleton Chapel on Tuesday evening, December 21, at 8 o'clock. The choir, accompanied by W. A. Locke '69, will sing several Christmas carols...
...fairly saturated with football, from the editorials and the leading article down to the inevitable "he and she" version of the great game. The leading article, by Mr. W. D. Sullivan '83 of the Boston Globe, has the great merit, rare in prophetic literature that it can be read after the event quite as well as before. It explains, simply and clearly, the situations which had to be met this fall by the coaches at New Haven and at Cambridge, and the methods followed in building up the two teams. Worth reading before the game, by reason of the light...
Banjo Club: banjeaurines--L. L. Baker '13, J. W. Bowen '12, Q. S. Greene '13, F. A. Hubbard '11, C. C. Kimball '13, C. F. Massey '10, R. Murray '12, E. S. Read '11, P. J. White '13, S. C. Woodworth '10; banjes--L. H. Baker '11, G. H. Bigelow '13, H. A. Gifford '12, A. A. Prior '12, D. J. Witmer '10, C. H. Wolfe '10; mandolas--E. E. Bennett '10, A. B. Day '13, K. B. Day '11, R. S. Hopkins '11, H. C. Kittredge '11, H. R. Morse '12, N. S. Smith '11, H. A. von Wedelstaedt...