Word: towns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chief character in the play is Nelson Marns, who finally succeeds in building a canal through a small town in New York after a bitter struggle. This part is to be taken by J. W. D. Seymour '17. Several minor parts are still to be filled. The cast with the men's parts taken by members of the University and the women's parts by Radcliffe students, follows: Nelson Marns, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Faith Stuart, Louise Perry 1920 Frederick Holmes, T. M. Hodgens '20 Edna Holmes, Mary Elizabeth Marsh 1920 Walace Miller, P. M. Hamilton '20 Arthur Crimmins...
...Billy" Sunday has come to town. A Great deal has been written about this remarkable man. That he is remarkable is 4evidenced by the widely contrary opinions concerning him. Some of the most orthodox and sincere Christians believe his work worse that useless. A great many atheists and kindred folk who normally look upon all religious impulse as folly, consider Mr. Sunday's work constructive because it awakens a dormant moral sense in thousands. Amid such diverse views we cannot dogmatically define the man. No doubt the wisest opinion would be that the proper adjective to describe him is "indeterminable...
...John Witherspoon was elected president of the college. His extensive plans for the enlargement of the institution were largely defeated by the interference of the War of Independence, in which the town and college of Princeton played a large part. Nassau Hall sheltered both British and American soldiers, and among the proudest possessions of the university are the two cannon which were captured during the war and which are now on the campus. As a result of the war the smallest class which ever graduated received their degrees during this period...
...purple cloth like icebergs shone the Alps. My! they looked steep and jagged. The sharp blue shadows on their western slopes emphasized the effect. One mighty group standing aloof to the West--Mont Blanc, perhaps. Ah, there are quantities of worm-eaten fields--my friends, the trenches,--and that town with the canal going through it must be M--. Right beside the capote of my engine, shining through the white silk cloth, a silver snake: the Rhine! "What, not over quarter to six, and I left the field at fivel Thirty-two metres. Let's go north and have...
Naturally there were some startling and amusing bits of information to be found in the papers. Senor Venizelos was credited with being a town in Mexico or Greece; Vance. McCormick was a famous Irish tenor and also a well-known war correspondent; honors for chief justice of the Supreme Court were divided between Messrs. Fuller, Hughes, Brandeis and Clark; Leonard Wood was called a pitcher on the Boston Red Sox; Mr. Gompers was accused of being a city in France or possibly South America; among the Maine senators were named Johnson, Burleigh, Hale, Fernald, Peters, McGillicuddy, Guernsey, and Cobb; Combles...