Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fogg Lecture Hall was well filled with an appreciative and sympathetic audience for the annual concert of the Musical Club last evening. The program was interesting, well chosen to show the capacity of the members and excellently contrasted. Throughout the evening the standard of performance was commendably high, and not only speaks well for the standards of the club, but also for the unusual skill of individual performers...
...scratch events will be the 40-yard dash, 45-yard high hurdles (3 flights), and the three-mile run. To enter the last named event a man must show a record of 16 minutes for the distance...
...handicap events will be as follows: three standing, broad jumps, 18-inch limit, competitors must show 31-foot record; 600-yard dash, 30-yard limit; 1000-yard run, 50-yard limit; one mile run, 75-yard limit; putting 16-pound shot, 4-foot limit, competitors must show that they have put the shot at least 40 feet in competition; high jump, 3-inch limit, competitors must show that they have jumped at least 5 feet, 3 inches in competition...
...play is somewhat different from Mr. Sheldon's former work. The scene is laid in Coney Island, and the plot deals with a rich young New Yorker who hires himself out as a pianist in a side show. He falls in love with the Princess Zim-Zim and the rest of the play revolves about their love story. Aside from the plot, the play is interesting chiefly as a vivid picture of Coney Island life...
...Christianity is not what we have but what we do with what we have. There is little use in trying to reach an ultimate religious unity when we take into consideration the differences of environment, race and character between one man and another, and when all the latest theories show us that of all the different interpretations of the Strictures none can be considered final. Faith, however, is the true basis of religion, for it not only makes us see our opportunities for service but it causes us to make others see. Christ did not come into life to give...