Word: role
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fine voice, an American stage anomaly, he carries through the "heavies" admirably. Elsie Rizer as the Colonel's wife, also has ability, but there is a lack of poise in her acting which is noticeable at tense moments. It is a surprise to see Frank Campeau in the small role of Bill, Hecht, when one remembers the remarkable Trampas he played in "The Virginians." Amelia Gardner as Mrs. Lane and Robert Frazer as Lieut. Ellsworth were capable supporters...
Ernest Truex, as the effiminate husband, is a remarkable example of what a good character actor can do. No one who saw him as the tough boy "detectuff" in "The Dummy" a few years ago would even recognize him in his present role. He has a rare gife of becoming not himself, but the particular person he is enacting for the present. He is thoroughly at home in his present part, having played it once before in "One Night," Philip Batholomae's farce, on which "Very Good Eddie" is founded...
Former President Ernest F. Nickols of Dartmouth becomes a professor of physics in the college and Mr. Mather A. Abcot, formerly a master in Groton School, assumes his dual role of assistant professor of Latin and crew coach, thus carrying further faculty interest and oversight of athletics. Austin N. Harmon is also added as a professor in the Latin and Greek department. In the Sheffield Scientific School, Professor Thomas S. Admas comes from Cornell University to instruct in economics...
...summer would do well to stop off at Cleveland to be present at the meeting there. So far a discouragingly small delegation, five, have signified their intention of attending. So notable an event is worthy of a far larger representation in order that Harvard may learn to play the role it ought to play on the international stage...
...bring together men form the districts which they represent, and, secondly, to interest and aid prospective members of the University. Toward making Harvard a thoroughly-representative institution and as one of the most convenient means of disseminating information in regard to the University, these clubs have an important role to play, and every effort should be made to keep them alive...