Word: staging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seats vacated. There are several promising men among the candidates who offered themselves on Saturday, that is to say, they are strong well made, and possess the necessary weight. As to the most important point to be considered-namely their determination to win-it is fruitless, at this early stage, to make any predictions. Very few of the men have had any valuable coaching and they will have to be taught the science of rowing from the beginning. This will compel the old men to go over much that they have learned before...
...four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study were recited to the late Joseph Back-minister, who was at that time a tutor in the academy. Here he was first called upon to "speak in public on the stage," and the effort was a complete failure; for the moment he began he became embarrassed and burst into tears. His antipathy to public declamation was unsurmountable; and in bearing testimony to this fact, he once uttered the following words: "I believe I made tolerable progress in most branches which...
...officers of the '86 Pi Eta are as follows: President, W. C. Boyden; Vice-President, J. H. Payne; Secretary, C. M. Thompson; Treasurer, C. R. Brown; Chorister, E. H. Ferry; Stage Manager, O. B. Roberts; Artist, W. W. Simmons; Caterer, J. C. Falkner...
...study of elocution at Harvard has in the past few years undergone a marked change. In place of individual instruction to the students, class work has been substituted and, judging by the improvement shown in the speaking on the Boylston stage last year, this work has proved to be successful. It is now intended that those who have studied elocution, continue to work in unison by forming a club. The object of this club will be to promote the study of elocution, oratory and the classical drama and to arouse a wider interest in them not only at Harvard College...
...thoughtful faces of our Annex maidens might easily be perceived, who had come forth from that sole remnant of antiquity which Cambridge can boast of-the Appian Way-to aid in applauding the unveiling of the new statue of John Harvard, the founder. Punctually at three o'clock the stage of the theatre began to be filled with those who were to take an active part in the unveiling ceremonies. Among these were President Eliot, Mr. Bridge, the donor of the statue, Daniel C. French, the sculptor, the Rev. Dr. Ellis, Edward Everett Hale and a number of the trustees...