Word: small
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Scarecrow," a four-act "tragedy of the ludicrous," is based on Hawthorne's "Feathertop," the scene lying in a small Massachusetts town, at the end of the seventeenth century. The first act opens in a blacksmith shop and the other three are at the home of Justice Merton...
...time when the attention of most men was centred on the material things of life he saw the coming need of educated men who should be ready to replace the then leaders of the people, and for the satisfaction of that need he gave his money and his books--small gifts according to our present standards but large in a generation when both were scarce...
...James H. Brewster, of the University of Michigan, delivered an illustrated lecture of unusual interest in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Characteristic Scenes in Chili, Bolivia and Peru." The slides used to illustrate the scenery and inhabitants of South America were excellent, especially those showing small towns with the show-capped Andes in the distance...
Travelling north from Chili, Professor Brewster entered the tin-producing region of Bolivia with its picturesque adobe houses, hilly cities, and gaily clad women selling their wares in the streets at remarkably small prices. Here the Hamas, small camels which have been domesticated since the time of the Incas, do all the draught work and haul the orange-laden wagons across the plains...
...Arthur Whiting will give the first of his expositions of chamber music this evening at 8 o'clock. Owing to the great success of these concerts last year, the Fogg Lecture Room was found too small, so that this year they will be held in the New Lecture Hall. Mr. Whiting, assisted by Miss Laura Kelsey, violinist, Mr. George Barrere, flutist, and Mr. Alwin Schroeder, violoncellist, will give the following program to illustrate the work of Johann Sebastian Bach...