Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Dean of the Dental School, presided and introduced President Lowell who briefly congratulated the alumni of the School on what they had done, saying that it showed great devotion on their part. The University as a whole has the deepest interest in the School and wishes it the greatest success in its new undertaking. The Alumni Chorus of the Dental School was present and rendered several selections throughout the evening. President Eliot was the principal speaker of the occasion; he gave an outline of the early days of dentistry at Harvard and finished by relating several amusing anecdotes concerning...
...clock, will be held at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria on that evening. The Harvard Club of New York will arrange for the concert and it will be under the special management of S. N. Hinckley '05. All Harvard men of New York are urged to forward the success of the undertaking by advertising it as much as possible...
...first act, there was great uncertainty as to the success of the place. The mechanics of the supernaturalism were imperfectly worked, and the utmost good-will was necessary in order to obtain more than momentary illusion. Yet the audience, if puzzled, was clearly interested and, for the most part, sympathetic. The second act showed substantial improvement. The actors were more at home in their parts, the lines were read better, and the wit of the dialogue more frequently crossed the footlights. The gradual rise in tone, the gaining of the serious upon the comic element, which...
...more important roles, that of Dickon, in the hands of T. M. Spelman '13, came nearest to complete success, especially in the middle acts. Savery '11, as the Scarecrow, was uneven, but did so well in spots that one may expect a much higher degree of effectiveness in later performances. E. a. C. Layman's face was not meant by nature for that of a Puritan justice; and, in spite of occasional good passages, his mirthful geniality of expression persisted in belying the character he had assumed. Miss Gragg rendered the varying and not entirely convincing moods of the heroine...
...stage. Of the remarkable literary interest of the piece, and its high poetic value there is no question; and last night' performance left the impression that with completely adequate setting and management, and a better sustained quality of acting, Mr. MacKaye's tragedy may yet achieve a striking success...