Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...passed when the colleges could lay down entrance requirements unquestioned; high schools have taken the aggressive, and show a growing tendency to try to dictate the terms on which they will furnish their product. But it is to be hoped they will not try to break down the colleges' qualitative standards not to force acceptance even of preparation of good quality in improper subjects. President Lowell points out that the existing "diversity of admission requirements and curricula" is great, and "gives the boy a chance to go to the institution where he will get the maximum education of which...
...reappearance of Hasty Pudding Spring Show posters in the Yard, after a lapse of three years, is one more indication that conditions at Cambridge are slowly swinging back to the normal plane of before the war days. It has been long since the curtain of the Pudding stage has creaked up on a much rouged and closely shaved chorus of pseudo-girls, and since basso-voiced heroines and sotto-voiced prompters have held an undergraduate audience thrilled by the unrehearsed actions of a Pudding cast. "Crowns and Clowns" will be a welcome visitor to the University...
...production of this new show calls to mind the last spring play that was to have been given, but which never appeared. Just as "Barnum Was Right" was ready for an expectant public the war broke--and to the last scene shifter and chorus man the company entered the service. Of the four officers of the club who signed the notice of the withdrawal of the show, two were killed and two were wounded. Of the chorus six were killed and as many more were wounded and gassed. This record is no greater than that of any other portion...
...Monday evening, April 14, the place to be announced later. The prizes are "awarded annually in three prizes,--one first prize of twenty-five dollars, one second prize of fifteen dollars, and one third prize of ten dollars,--to those students of the Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes, who show their excellence in reciting a selection in poetry or prose which shall be chosen by the donor or those appointed by him." They were established in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son, Lee Wade...
...from this "standard" should not be condemned because it is a departure. When, for instance, some institution, as Yale, makes a change in her system, as she did by abolishing a four-year Latin training for entrance, the only telling argument which can be brought against it is to show that the plan is out of harmony with the times...