Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Jean DeBeer '47, however, disagreed with her schoolmate. "They haven't anything we haven't got-they just have more of it. But we have something they haven't got: (sotto voce). We know how to speak the boys' language," are purred...
...third-hand version of a second-rate Broadway production in which the favorite college wit unsuccessfully attempts an imitation of Monty Wooley or Victor Moore. Nor are they cheered to the point of unharnessing two dollars to listen to a short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success. And in the whole range of drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill...
Such support in such a politically-disorganized community will probably assure the candidate's election. He is undoubtedly qualified for the honor. But it requires small reflection to realize that the University's representatives are expected to speak for and act as students, not as lobbyists for a particular organization, political, religious, or otherwise. The true potential in the idea of students meeting together on a national or world basis lies in the application of the open-minded search for knowledge to their own problems. If the dogmas of organizations already established are to occupy the discussions, a sincere endeavor...
Such an all-around background has given him a balanced view even of Basic English. He laughs off the nation that he wants to force anyone, including himself, to speak only Basic. "It's too dull!" he exclaims. "You can't swear...
...which a college-sized organization can operate with any degree of comfort. Hampered by University restrictions on what can and what cannot be done to the physical properties of Sanders Theater, the HDC had to work something of a seene-shifting miracle, operate without benefit of a curtain, and speak their lines in an acoustical monstrosity in order to stage their show at all. A week later, the Veterans Theater found themselves saddled with a 1500 seat auditorium rented from Rindge Tech and half a mile out of the student's path to the box office. Yet with the Brattle...