Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 of northern Michigan brings to us again the attractiveness of some old-time plays. In the latter part of the play there is little relief from the sadness of a sorrowful tale, but the sentiment is strong hearted and healthy, the language is dignified, the acting is simple, the whole has impressiveness and charm. It is a good play to see. Lovers of the poem will still find the poem, and youth who are learning...
Last year the Harvard Athletic Association had at its disposal 1600 tickets for the Harvard-Yard boat races. There were 2600 applications. Yale forwarded 700 more tickets so there was some relief. This year, however, it is expected that the application list will be as large and that there will be only 1600 tickets available. A very definite curtailment in the allotment seems necessary...
This statement relieves the doubt which has been prevalent for some time as to whether the football team would continue under the leadership of Mr. Haughton as head coach following his five year term in that position which ended with the 1912 season. The relief is doubly great when it is remembered that at this late date no man had been mentioned who could possibly take Mr. Haughton's place...
...comic operas offer as pretentious a plot as does "The Stymie" and one is spared the usual experience of sitting through much unrelated dialogue in the hope that relief will appear in the form of another song. In fact, the play contains approximately half the customary number of musical selections, and the appeal to attention is frankly on the side of the story, with what amounts to incidental numbers, both songs, and dances, introduced for the sake of variety. The chorus of "Copper Moon" would have gained in effectiveness had it been sung "off stage"; and in several cases...
...Curtis is the pioneer in America in the art of constructing such models. In the University he was a deep student of geology and geography, and studied modelling with Professor Albert Heim, of Zurich, who is master in these models. The relief map of Greater Boston, belonging to the state, was made by Mr. Curtis, and is now in custody of the Agassiz Museum. He has made two models of coral islands which are among the chief attractions of the Agassiz Museum...