Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the fact that the Union "Song Night" was well advertised, despite the fact that a special orchestra was provided by the management, despite the fact that Dr. Davison gave his special attention to the project, the experiment tried last night was decidedly not a success. All the proper ingredients were mixed apparently, except one which was wholly lacking: enthusiasm on the part of the undergraduates...
...seek to win applause by study. Perhaps because of physical debility or fear of the more active competitions on the pig fields, they take refuge in their books, often memorizing entire volumes for the sake of the Prophezzors' praise. If that praise rings loud enough, they are shown more special honor. A special committee of Prophezzors awards to the men chosen a huge brass slab called for some strange reason, a "key." This device is worn in a very showy position just over their stomachs and bears the legend: "Reading maketh a full man. Behold my surfeit...
...full two days program has been arranged for the Board of Overseers in the University, which will meet for a stated and special session today and tomorrow. Besides the regular business, which will be taken up in the morning, the members will hear numerous lectures on undergraduate life and University organization...
...this morning a special group of talks comprising an "Educational Journey of the Undergraduate" will be given following the business meeting. Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on the Choice of Electives, will speak concerning the work of his committee. E. W. Whitney '17, dean of Freshmen, will talk on "The Freshman Year", and G. H. Chase '96, acting dean of the University, will address the company on "Discipline and Counsel...
...last American drama seems to have hit upon a pattern and a rhythm all its own. Breaking away from German Expressionism, our native playwrights are developing a special national technique--a sort of radio-ragtime-phonograph-jazz. Two plays in particular illustrate this latest experimental phase. One is John Howard Lawson's "Processional" which has been the storm center of discussion in New York. The other is a still more extraordinary play by his friend, the novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos, a play that has not yet been acted or published, called "The Moon is a Gong". This...