Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keeping the third act in the cellar, but there were other noticeable differences. The Nastya was not so good, and the Luka, played by Maurice Schwartz, was conceived as more of a burlesque figure than one who oddly mixes the religious and the practical, the human, and the saint. In both of these performances the handling of the mobs was adequate, but not unusual, and the many other character parts were competently filled...
Jeanne d'Arc, on horseback, accompanied by an army of archers, halberd-bearers and trumpeters, made her annual triumphant entry into La Place Saint Suplice, Paris. This revived pageant of the middle ages is now an intrinsic part of La Fête de Saint Germain...
Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
...Saint Germain Fair is one of the oldest in the country and was a regular event in the days of Jeanne d'Arc. It was within recent years revived by the Committee of old Paris and the municipal authorities of the Latin Quarter. Ever since the canonization of Jeanne d'Arc, in 1918, the Fair has been more warmly welcomed than ever by the Parisians...
...chairman of the committee on service to the University, E. M. Grossman '96, of Saint Louis, in a report prepared too late for discussion with other members of the committee, recommends "that a special committee be appointed to observe and study methods of nomination and election of Overseers and to report such changes and improvements as will tend to give Overseers a more truly representative character". Eight members of the committee, in addition to the chairman, approved the report; from ten more to whom the report was submitted no replies were received. Two members the ground that they consider...