Word: thing
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...those who compete for the University football and baseball teams, the "two-thirty" is a thing to be avoided as well as disliked, and some plan for readjusting the college day would be justified from a consideration of those men alone. But the effect of the "two-thirty" extends further; it seriously effects the general movement of "athletics for all." Statistics have shown that an encouragingly large proportion of the University is taking part in that movement. In the past few years the number of men who take regular exercise has been increasing appreciably. However, it cannot be denied that...
...Peddler's Pack" is vivid, imaginative, individual, quaint--much the best thing in the number, both in conception and in execution. "An Aesthete's Nightmare" proves how rare the extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...
Plans for the fall production of the Dramatic Club are already well under way and every thing points to a most successful season. The dates for the two Cambridge performances, which will be held as usual in Brattle Hall, have been set for December 14 and 16. The theatre for the Boston performance, which will be given on December 15, has not yet been decided upon. The club plans to make a trip to New York City this fall as a result of its success there last December, provided the play to be produced is deemed worthy...
...school for acting," he said, "the actors would all be taught to fence, to ride, to wrestle, to run across country, to raise, lower, and modulate the voice for a period of at least four years. The feeling of colors, tones, and rhythms, melodies, harmonies, all that sort of thing would be developed in each student to the limit of his individual capacity. Physical perfection is, of course, essential to the actor...
Harvard has been a pioneer in this field, and the Jefferson Laboratory, built in 1884, is the first building of its kind in America. It was here that the notion was first overthrown that "such things as turning lathes were not the sort of thing one should have in a university...