Word: showing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most esteemed contemporaries in Boston assured us last night after making a thorough investigation of weather conditions of the past few centuries that zero weather was over for a year as far as this neighborhood was concerned. Statistics show that the overwhelming majority of University students has its legal residence in the only Commonwealth in America, but in regard to the prophecy made by our Boston friend everyone in Cambridge claims to hail from a certain state in the Southwest. We do not wish to be foolishly skeptical, but seeing is believing, and until the warm winds of summer...
...armies include in their ranks even boys, while we hesitate to enroll all who have reached their majority. That men between 20 and 22 years of age make enthusiastic, efficient soldiers needs no proof, nor can the authorities at Washington be ignorant of this fact. Not only do they show as much skill in fighting, but they also are less likely than older recruits to have dependents. Comparatively few have progressed so far in business or in any profession that their prospects of future success are seriously diminished. By enrolling men as they come of age the War Department will...
...costing $5. These books will admit the soldier to whom they are given to the various entertainments at the camps. Large theatres and tents have been put up especially for this purpose in the 32 National Army and National Guard cantonments in which regular theatrical companies will give regular shows. Vaudeville from Keith's circuit by special companies who will play only at the camps will be provided for the soldiers, together with the best concerts, movies and lectures. The cost of admission to these performances will vary from two to five coupons, depending the cost of producing the show...
...CRIMSON said yesterday, there is no need to make the rowing and baseball seasons periods of expense and advertisement and excitement. The undergraduates have no more desire for such a season than have the Faculty or the graduates. An economical season is perfectly possible, as the undergraduates will show if they are given the chance...
...Lord and Lady Algy" is, as you choose, a bad example of the well-made play, or a good example of the badly-made play. Its characters are masters of misunderstanding, they employ their subtlety in letting the obvious elude them; if they once stopped to think the whole show would be given away, so they never stop to think. Yet the play is charming, with its odor of jockeys and horse-racing, baronets and bachelor apartments, epigrams, good bad women and other pleasant things now out of date. True, the text now contains motors cars, and a subway...