Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hasty Pudding Club. Taken as a whole the play is a good deal above the average of Pudding productions. The first act goes off with a swing and dash somewhat lacking in the second which, however, is enlivened by specialties, a burlesque on Robespierre and several dances full of spirit and movement. The burlesque, though clever, will need cutting down; the act indeed would not lose by the omission of the quintette. The surprising and unexpected situations which abound in the play carry it along and give it great interest. In itself the play has but little plot...
...Fairlie '00, "The Military Spirit in America," Chauncey M. Depew...
This year's Pi Eta play. "The Campaigners," was presented before the graduates of the society in the Pi Eta. Theatre last night. It is fully as good as last year's opera, "The Belles of Bellesley," and was carried through with commendable spirit and dash...
...current number of the Lampoon begins with a timely and sensible editorial on the old College bell. It shows a creditable fairness in spirit, and goes directly to the heart of the question. The illustrations are only passable, with the exception of the cover, which is well executed and suggests the drawings of DuMaurier. The centre piece is not particularly amusing and as an illustration is rather flat and spiritless. The best of the poems is a parody on the "Psalm of Life," witty and cleverly carried out, but too late to be very effective. The short jokes and stories...
...include Porto Rico within our customs boundary is economically advantageous to the island; it fulfills our national moral obligations, and it is politically wise in that it upholds the highest spirit of American institutions, of American civilization, and of American governmental ideals...