Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...important early appointments in Philosophy. He was the first chairman of the department committee. No man has had more to do with guiding the fortunes of philosophy at Harvard through great difficulties, than he. And now as the moment approaches when he has been looking forward to an early relief from his most strenuous cares, the department has to depend upon him more than ever. He is once more chairman. For one reason or another most of the rest of us are idle or absent. I want to express my earnest gratitude that he is still at the helm...
...rich baritone, to say nothing of his versatile acting, entitles him to be considered the best male singer heard here in operetta for the past few years, with the exception of Orville Harold. The other members of the cast are familiar musical-comedy figures. It is a distinct relief to find a piece, the libretto of which does not suffer from the injection of slap-stick and futile appeals to the powers below, and in spite of the cold reception "Gypsy Love" received in New York, doubtless for this very reason, it is the best operetta seen this season...
...Harvard Officers' Fund Association will hold its annual meeting in the Faculty Room, University 5, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The purpose of the association is to provide relief, "ordinarily of a temporary nature, for the families of any deceased officer of the University or for any officers distressed by illness or by other calamities." Any person whose name is entered in the annual Catalogue as an officer of government or instruction of the University will be welcome...
From the labored manner of such efforts one turns with relief to the more spontaneous productions of the less mediocre class. The clever phrasing of the editorial on the abandonment of hat-bands ought to assist in impressing upon the mind of the College the necessity of democratic reform. The naturalness of Mr. Viet's criticism of Jules Verne is refreshing; and at the end of his skit, "Pat Gallagher's Hundred Dollar Bill," he employs the method of suggestion with good result, because he has not run it into the ground in the earlier part of the composition...
...athletic situation at Harvard. Witness the following sentence: " * * * taxicabs as the sole means of getting about, costly dinners with wines and cigars,--all to be paid for out of gate money,--these things belong with that theory of training which furnishes free automobile rides and theatre trips as a relief to the over-taxed nervous systems of the University squads." Certainly, it would do no harm if this extract were printed on small pasteboards and entrusted to the captains and managers of some of the teams about to start on a trip...