Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commenting on the production Mr. Kronberg said, "As to the coming performance of 'Die Walkure,' I can say that many technical difficulties have been solved by the aid of previous experience.... In the Harvard Stadium last year the stage was 425 feet away from the first row of seats. While this still permitted the audience to hear the singers perfectly, the orchestration was not loud enough. This time the structure of the Bowl allows the stage to be placed within a short distance of the audience and the defect in orchestration has been corrected by the addition of more violins...
...right to say that today's review in the Stadium signified more to the honor of Harvard than any of its greatest athletic victories ever did or ever can. It was not the work of eleven men and their substitutes but the feat of a thousand men and their officers. So large a representation could be taken as the measure of Harvard's whole undergraduate body. It made no difference that the crowd of spectators was thousands less than the throng which goes to a football game to gain public applause, they entered to help prepare themselves for an hour...
...seven hundred men to the Plattsburg Camps alone. Both those who have already signed up for the Training Camps or Cruise, and those who have thought of enrolling should make an effort to be at this meeting. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 and the other speakers are sure to say something that will interest everyone...
...Unionists are thoroughly satisfied that Compulsion is a naughty word for polite society, when everyone is convinced that the Union seethes with joyous and turbulent students, and when everything has been said and done to demonstrate this important fact, that the Union is worthy of our support, because some say that it should be worthy of support--then, the smoke clears and we note the following handwriting upon the wall...
Journalistic courtesy forbids a forecast of the result of the contest, as any attempt would necessarily be insulting to the Lampoon. The facts of the encounter will speak for themselves, and for the CRIMSON. It is enough to say that the CRIMSON will furnish the refreshments and the Lampoon the amusement...