Word: small
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Social Question: Francois Curel and M. Antoine's Theatre" was the subject of the sixth French lecture yesterday afternoon. The lecture dealt with the history of the small theatres that have sprung up in response to the efforts of young authors who are trying to gain a reputation. Of these theatres the chief are the Theatre Antoine, Theatre Libre, Gaiete Montparnasse and Menus Plaisirs. For the fifteen years in which these theatres have been in vogue many popu ar plays have been represented there, such as "L'Evasion," by Alexander Villiers; "Le Pain du Peche," by T. Aubanel; "Rolande...
...wish the man who blew up the pump to realize that he has been guilty of an act so small and mean as to arouse the contempt of the body of undergraduates. Signed, J. LAWRENCE, JR., H. B. KIRTLAND, W. T. FOSTER, W. T. REID, Jr., WADDILL CATCHINGS, DAVID C. CAMPBELL, J. W. HALLOWELL...
...Brieux, who started as a journalist in a small country town, has seen much of life. "Menage d'Artistes," "Blanchette," and "Les Trois Filles de M. Dupont" are works that show a keen desire for fighting the evils with which the family life of our society is afflicted. The subjects he deals with are as modern and as true to life as the news we read in the daily papers; they are comedies as well as moral plays. He is another who always works out his plots with the simplest solutions...
...under his charge. At a recent joint meeting of the Oriental Society and the American Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, by which the Palestine school was founded, Dr. James B. Nies was authorized to try to raise by subscription $200,000 to be added to the present very small endowment fund of the school. Dr. Nies in a tour covering a year, examined the whole territory of the Holy Land, and his search resulted in the surprising discovery that in Palestine, which is archaeologically the most interesting region of the world, almost no excavations and no organized research...
...general improvement in the condition of the association lies in the removal of its debts. In February, 1900, debts amounting to about $178 were outstanding, and the running expenses for the year had of course to be paid. The association has met these liabilities and now has a small balance in the treasury...