Word: repays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...production of plays by students is to be praised; as showing a movement in the right direction. Dramatic societies should not be scorned, however, they rend a passion to tatters. Education should join hands with elocution and thus repay to the theatre the inspiration which the theatre has long given to education. Elocution in its broadest sense applies to all those recreations of voice and body which arouse or exhibit the passions or any of our wide range of feelings. Without thorough training in these things, a man is not prepared to make the best use of his four years...
...Bronson Howard lectures tonight in Sanders on "The Autobiography of a Play." Little need be said of a gentleman who is so well known as Mr. Howard. The lecture will, without doubt, well repay all who attend. This lecture is to be the first in a series given under the auspices of the Shakspere Club, which has as its object the furtherance of elocution and dramatic expression. The initial lecture is peculiarly apt, for while few Harvard students, perhaps, will actually grace the boards, it is not by any means improbable that many students will write for the stage. There...
...this year far surpass in interest those which have been offered for several years. Great care has been taken in the selection of the readings, and they are given by gentlemen whose names assure those who care to interest themselves in the matter that attendance will fully repay any one for the time he may give to it. The most prominent gentlemen in their several departments are lending their best efforts to the success of the course, and the readings already given are examples of the excellence which may justly be expected in the readings which are to follow...
...student a source of artistic enjoyment which can hardly be equalled by any other means as economical. There is something connected with these reproductions of the old works of art which is unique with them. They are well worthy of the students notice, and are certain to repay him in the artistic appreciation which they foster. The catalogues offer such a variety of subjects that every taste can be gratified. And the expense is so trifling that no one need hesitate to indulge his desire for them...
...effectiveness of the present system of study would be enormously increased while conforming to the convenience and task of all. The students would by this means be saved from the too common aimless reading of leisure moments, and would have their minds directed into a channel which would repay every effort, at the same time that it would relieve the harsher strain of studies more peculiarly collegiate in their character...