Word: things
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...star system and insists on the equal merit of all the actors, giving subordinate parts to excellent actors and thus producing a thoroughly artistic whole. As a proof of his success, Norman Hapgood '90, one of the most prominent dramatic critics of New York, says, that the best thing without exception which he had seen during last winter was a performance of "Wilhelm Tell" at the Irving Place Theatre...
...question of the advisability of the Freshman class having a dinner has recently been brought up. Such a move would, it seems to me, be an excellent thing. In the case of the upper classes, a yearly dinner has almost invariably served to bring out class spirit and class sympathy and to bind the members of the class closer together. In these days of very large classes, it is growing more and more difficult to rouse real class spirit and class enthusiasm, and everything which tends to bring out class spirit should be done. One of the best ways...
...French Academy this year awarded to him the Prix Vitet, and M. Gaston Boissier, secretary of the Academy, said in his official report: "M. de Regnier is one of the leaders of that new school which pretends to do no less a thing than modify the form and the spirit of French poetry. Everybody recognizes that M. de Regnier has very rare poetical gifts; abundance and richness in images; amplitude and harmony of the period, a grace both provoking and natural that makes him admired even by those whom his boldness displeases." M. de Regnier was made a chevalier...
...gained 3 1-4 per cent. in the northeast and 14 3-4 per cent. in the south, but has lost 19 3-4 per cent. in the central states, 2 per cent. in the western states and 11 3-4 per cent. in foreign countries. The most remarkable thing shown by this table is Yale's great loss in the central states, as against a considerable gain for Harvard in that section...
President Hadley: "With regard to the Yale spirit at the present time, I can say from my heart that it is a thing of inspiration. Never has it been more fully manifest in students, in the faculty, in the administration, and in the graduates. The work of the athletic season, during the past six months, has not been anything to boast of outside; it has been a thing on which inside among ourselves we may congratulate ourselves for. Beginning in the autumn with discouraging prospects, Captain McBride and his men have worked faithfully and the college has supported them. Never...