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...first act took place in the house of the self-serving and extremely annoying Reverend Parris performed by HLS student Joseph A. Nuccio. The fact that it happened to be his house was only visible by the program. All of the other houses in which scenes were set appeared exactly the same, with one low coffee table serving as the only prop, a makeshift table or chair as necessity required. Nuccio was a fitting Reverend Parris, sufficiently pompous and dense to the point of aggravation. He announced at one point with grandiosity that naturally amused the audience, that...
...with Abigail Williams (a girl less than 20 and he a farmer with three children). From the beginning his skepticism for the system bodes ill for his fate. He holds himself as the most enlightened of the village and doesn’t bother to restrain his hatred for Reverend Parris. As the whirlwind of madness enters even his house on the outskirts of the village he manages to keep his back straight and nearly unwinds the whole mad spectacle until it captures and1 breaks him. Hanley’s performance takes Proctor convincingly through all these stages with...
...away to the gibbet while she is saved for another six months because of her pregnancy. Segal-Reichlin’s Goodie Proctor seems sickly and sniveling as she well must be, yet her facial expression varies only slightly in degree of victimized self-pity. She is immobile when Reverend Hale (HLS student Taylor L. Dasher) pleads with her to get her husband to confess and sheds but a few tears for his impending fate...
...Reverend C. R. Brown, D.D., Dean of the Yale Divinity School, spoke at Cornell, while at Brown, the baccalaureate address was given by President W. H. P. Faunce...
Dartmouth may be far different from Harvard in terms of recruitment, but it has a strikingly similar history. In 1769, Dartmouth founder Reverend Eleazar Wheelock was able to raise substantial funds for the College from the Royal Governor of New Hampshire after penning a charter that devoted Dartmouth to “the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in the Land and also of English Youth and any others.” For the next two centuries, Dartmouth, like Harvard, failed to fulfill its promises. However, in his 1970 inauguration, Dartmouth President John G. Kemeny pledged...