Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...high jump and the shot-put, the broad jump is undecided, and the pole-vault and hammer-throw will almost surely go to Yale. Of the five places won in the intercollegiate games last spring, four were won in the field events, and all but two by men still in College...
...high jumpers that won points in the meet last year are still in College. R. G. Harwood '09, R. E. Somers '08, and G. E. Roosevelt '09, have all won points against Yale. Yale has lost their captain J. W. Marshall '07, who won the event for the last four years...
...upper-class debating should be left to individual enterprise, an entirely new system of debating clubs has grown up within the University. In the place of the Agora and Forum of last year, there are now five independent societies, with a total membership of about 85. Two of them still retain the names of Agora and Forum, but they have been change constitutionally in the direction of informality. Debating has now become an essentially informal affair, and three of the clubs do not even have offices. The Agora and Forum, as they now exist, have 25 and 20 members respectively...
...comedy. M. Carbonnel has had a flirtation of which his wife learns and for which she decides to punish him. She takes from him the keys of the treasure-box, and, in addition, pretends, than a Colonel Bernard of their acquaintance, has paid court to her and still presses his attentions upon her. By threatening to "invite the Colonel," she silences her husband whenever he seeks to prove his masculine superiority. Colonel Bernard, in the meantime, has become engaged and comes to Paris to celebrate his wedding. On his coming to visit Carbonnel, Elisa, the latter's wife, pretends...
...Gringoire," the most serious of the three plays, is one of the masterpieces of the graceful poet, Theodore do Banville. It is still contained in the repertoire of the Comedies Francaise, and is played today by some of the best actors of that illustrious company. The action takes place in the time of Louis XI. At the opening of the play, the king is seated at table with Oliver-Le-Daim, his barber and favorite, when a great commotion is heard in the street, and Gringoire, the vagabond poet, is seen outside. Gringoire has incurred the enmity of Oliver...