Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alive to Modern Times. Not so extreme that patrons of their dramatic production will spend the first act in vain attempts to make sense out of the doings of those upon the stage and the last two in a program-thumbing defeatism, still the members of the Cercle show a heartening discontent with mere conventional performance. The staging of seventeenth century plays in modern dress is not entirely unprecedented, but hitherto the creations of Moliere have been passed over by the managers who have put Hamlet and Macbeth into sack suits. Modernistic scenery in various phases has appeared rather frequently...
...explorers, led by Professor Edward Chiera, now of Chicago University, restricted their work to the houses which belonged to the last occupation of Nuzi, destroyed by fire about 500 B. C. They made only tentative penetrations below the floor level, but these sufficed to show that important ruins lay underneath, dating from earlier occupations. In these lower depths we may hope to find objects of finer quality than anything yet found on the site, as has often occurred in Babylonian exploration...
Figures at University Hall on the fields of concentration of the Class of 1931 show that Economics and English attract over 30 percent of the class each claiming...
Files of the Crimson of 53-years ago show that at that time the College daily took an active interest in the affairs of the Freshman classes. Among the editorials administering advice to the first year men is one "On Dress," which is herewith reprinted from the issue of the Crimson of September...
...these, wear the name of religion. Whether one approves or not, the contemporary attitude is distinctly not religious; and in the belief that P. B. H. is fundamentally religious, and therefore slightly emasculated, lies much of the innate indifference of the under graduate toward it. The conference will show that the organization is one with the flabby efforts of misguided philanthropy, which the new student has generally met. When this misconception is out of the way, the ground will be clear for more fertile plans of active work...