Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Mistakes such as the Athletic Association has been guilty of this fall in the distribution of tickets for the final games have been sources of much annoyance and complaint. The first and most serious error of which we have heard was the printing on the Yale game application blanks of Wednesday, November 3, as the final date for the acceptance of applications, while the circular of instructions gave the date as Friday, November 5. Many persons who accepted the latter as the correct date found difficulty in having their applications received after Wednesday. Now it appears that a considerable number...
...light fantastic comedy and will be played for the first time on Thursday evening of this week. It will also run on Saturday evening and matinee and during next week. E.B. Sheldon '08, the author of "Salvation Nell," has written a play entitled "The Nigger," the first serious American drama to be played at the New Theatre. The exact date of the first performance of this play is not decided...
...this sounds very serious, indeed, but the underlying tragedy of the theme comes to the surface only at intervals. The prevailing note is comedy, and there is much rich humor of character and situation. The first act, in the blacksmith shop of Goody Rickby, the witch, in a seventeenth century Massachusetts village, shows the creation and early training of the scarecrow, who, under the title of Lord Ravensbane, is sent into the world to avenge on Rachel, the daughter of Justice Merton, the wrong that the latter in his youth has inflicted on the witch. Attended by Dickon, "a Yankee...
...seeking to prevent the wholesale cutting of lectures on the days of important athletic contests the Student Council is aiming at an evil which has been extremely serious in past years. Until the organization of the Council it was a practice that went unchecked by any restraint except that of the College office, and which brought confusion to Saturday lectures and disrepute on scholastic and athletic affairs alike...
...line-up, but on the whole the first team did very well, especially in the second half. Leslie, Corbett, and McKay were not on the field, the two latter being out of the game for a few days on account of injuries, which, however, are not serious. P. D. Smith and Wigglesworth, who have not played in the scrimmage for some days, will probably be in condition by the end of the week. H. Hooper played left tackle in place of McKay, and did very well for the first day. J. W. Farley '99 joined the coaching staff yesterday...