Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Marvelous Bentham" is a farce which deals with the president of the American Feather Company who is on the point of avoiding the trust troubles by a cruise on his yacht, with the secretary Bentham who acts at the other end of the telephone. The play is full of farcical dramatic situations because of the love affairs or two daughters, the son, a count, and a French actress. At the climax Bentham telephones that he and the actress have taken the yacht...
...Corporation yesterday accepted a prize of $50 in trust which has been offered by the Patria Society for the best undergraduate essay of at least 3000 words on the subject: "Harvard Men in the Revolution." The essay must be handed in to J. G. Hart '93, in University 20, on or before May 1, 1910. In judging the essays literary excellence will be considered as well as historical merit. All essays must be typewritten and are subject to the rules governing such competitions, which may be found in the Catalogue...
...Members of the University may send subscriptions to the Treasurer, Mr. H. T. Waller, 826 Massachusetts avenue, or may leave them at the office of the Cambridge Trust Company, which has kindly consented to receive subscriptions." J. H. ROPES '89, chairman. C. A. ADAMS. J. H. BEALE '82. T. N. CARVER. E. F. GAY. J. D. GREENE '96. P. H. HANUS. A. B. HART '80. F. L. KENNEDY '92. G. L. KITTREDGE '82. G. H. PALMER '64. T. W. RICHARDS '86. H. W. SMYTH...
...play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand we seldom trust. The people among whom he is placed in the play are good people but their attitude towards him is the attitude of many of the audience. They cannot sympathize with him. But with it all there is a feeling of certainty, of faith in himself in this play which...