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Nothing could better disprove the assertion that drama is essentially literature than does the long pantomime so effectively staged by Reinhardt and so vividly acted by his German performers with skilful use of the unfamiliar medium of gesture and facial expression.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Plays in Boston | 4/10/1912 | See Source »

The verse is notably good. Much of it is imaginative, and some of it has caught a larger diction than is usual in college poetry. Mr. Baker of the Yale Literary Magazine contributes a striking ballade; Mr. Hagedorn a fine monologue of New York street life; Mr. Seeger two sonnets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anniversary Number of Monthly | 5/14/1910 | See Source »

W. G. Beach '11 spoke with remarkable swing and poetic feeling, and the impressionistic impersonation of one of Dickens's characters by F. Stern '11 was extremely skilful.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Awards of Boylston Prizes | 5/13/1910 | See Source »

Dentistry begins its service to the human being in childhood, and endeavors to keep as long as possible the first teeth. Then begins the filling of teeth in which caries has appeared, the professional exhortation to cleanliness of the teeth, and the instruction in the means of keeping the teeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DENTAL SCHOOL DEDICATION | 12/9/1909 | See Source »

The match, which was postponed from the previous day because of darkness, was extremely closely contested in spite of the fact that the Yale players did not get a set. Yale lobbed a great deal and kept the Pennsylvania men on the jump all the time, but were not able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Lost Tennis to Pennsylvania | 10/10/1908 | See Source »

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