Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sophomore year was elected President of his class. He served on the Student Council from 1922 to 1925 and in his last year was on the Senior Endowment Committee and was elected Second Marshal of his class. Throughout his college career Bassett was interested in the work of the Philips Brooks House. He served on a number of its committees and in his senior year he was elected President of the organization...
...Eabelais", the topic of Professor Morize's lecture this morning at ten in Harvard 6, offers the Vagabond an occasion to become a little more familiar with this outstanding figure in French literature. Although Rabelais' work is of such permanent significance as to be a standard, the present activity of book censors and other public officials makes Professor Morize's subject very timely and of special interest even to those to whom French literature itself makes no appeal...
...Mitchell, one of the most popular actors on the American stage, who is now starring in "The Whole Town's Talking" at the Plymouth Theatre remarked, "the actors whom I know who have gone over to the talkies for short periods have universally disliked the work. There is none of the freedom and spirit of the legitimate stage,--none of the charm. It is the personal contact with the audience that makes the acting profession fascinating...
...know, the audience does about fifty percent of the work in an ordinary performance. A good, hearty, infectious laugh out front will put a whole new aspect into the action on the stage. When you know that you have the audience with you the play fairly rolls along. But if the house is feeling glum, then you have to double your efforts and cheer them up--put them in the spirit of the thing. There can be no such close relationship between audience and actor in the talking pictures, and with that relationship most of the fascination of the stage...
...serious, work-filled life at a university might almost as well be non-existent. Exploitation of collegiate Fords, fraternity, parties and infractions of rules has created an impression on the public mind that is pitiably false...