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...individual actors none stand out except G. P. Gardner and W. S. Sea-mans--Mutt and Jeff--both of whom are exceedingly good. R. C. Foster puts a good deal of spirit into a rather tame part, and J. G. Blaine manages his two songs well. The girls are moderately charming: and the choruses are well trained, active, and effectively made...

Author: By H. A. Bellows ., | Title: Public Performance of H. P. C. Play | 4/7/1910 | See Source »

...medical profession offers the man who wants to fight a good fight every opportunity. Professor James has complained that the world is in danger of becoming too tame and of losing those manly virtues that were fostered by war. In medicine a man will find great campaigns waged which call for the highest sort of physical and moral courage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION" | 3/4/1910 | See Source »

...just now is desirable. The real trouble seems to be that the work is not carefully thought to or logically arranged, and that the product of an idle moment as allowed, without revision, to creep into print. Under such circum stances the business of the reviewer is all too tame, for he must point out blunders which the writers themselves might easily have rectified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 5/1/1909 | See Source »

Tourguenev's ideas were a little more radical, and he expressed them more openly, when, in speaking of one of his greatest novels, he said that it indicated the struggle between tame, well-fostered, domestic animals, and the gray, half-starved wolves of the country. He referred to the struggle of democracy and aristocracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Milyoukov's Lecture. | 12/22/1904 | See Source »

...dual meet with Princeton. The former was, held with bad weather conditions, but Torrey did the 100 yard dash in 9 4-5 seconds and Parsons did the had mile in 2 minutes and a fraction of a second--a remarkable performance. The Princeton meet was a rather tame affair but interesting as being the first intercollegiate event since the Pennsylvania games. McLanahan broke the world's record in the pole vault and Captain Clapp easily won both hurdles. The time in all the track contests was good. De Witt was Princeton's best man, and he and Williams were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter, | 5/14/1904 | See Source »

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