Word: results
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there has been merit, the plays have not been of the kind which local censors could witness unblushingly. Since the days of Professor George P. Baker, Harvard College has taken little or no notice of the drama as a field of instruction until quite recently, with the result that the quality of student dramatic literature has suffered deplorably; and yet the Dramatic Club is criticised for not producing undergraduate plays...
Harvard, literally, has lost thousands of dollars worth of goodwill through her contemptuous attitude towards the daily press. She has lost, besides, the enrolment of hundreds of worthy men who have been attracted to other universities as a result of misrepresentations in the press and popular traditions fire of such misrepresentations. Her endowment, furthermore has lost very substantial sums from graduates who have been outraged by unfavorably colored news...
...never laughs so heartily as when one has just stared into the half-revealed face of tragedy, Mr. Oursler, the playwright, has attempted to strike the delicate line between straight comedy and unadulterated drama, and has hit it so exactly that both words are necessary to describe the result...
Twenty-one letter men are on hand this year from last season's track outfit, representing practically every event. Of these men, four were awarded letters as a result of placing in the recent I. C. 4A. meet at New York, including Vernon Munroe '31 and V. L. Hennessy '30 in the relay, C. E. Dunlap '30 in the pole vault, and F. J. Mardulier '30 in the high hurdles. The other returning letter men, listed with their events, are as follows...
When a linotype operator makes an error he has to complete that line of type before he can make a new line. The easiest thing for him to do is to run his fingers down the first two vertical rows of his keyboard. The result is the emergence of a line containing "etaoin shrdlu." And when the operator forgets to pluck the faulty line from the mould, "etaoin shrdlu" gets into print. So often has "etaoin shrdlu" appeared with a "Mr." prefixed, that Mr. Etaoin Shrdlu has really become a famed press personage. He has a relative who dwells...