Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often the more effective. Garrick's, 'Prithee, undo this button,' was remembered long after his more stately passages were forgotten. The actor who relaxes from a natural to an artificial tone loses force. To be natural on the stage is more difficult, but a grain of nature is worth a bushel of artifice. Nature may be overdone by triviality when exaltation is demanded. Like the practised orator, the actor rises and descends with the sentiment, and cannot always be in a fine frenzy...
...follow the dictionary, but the emotions. Pronunciation is to the actor what color is to the artist. Words are intended to express ideas, but not to bind them in fetters. The force of an actor depends upon his physique; therefore the body should be cultivated. Your gymnasium is worth volumes on this subject; (applause from the gallery) but sometimes the body is cultivated at the expense of the mind." (Applause from the orchestra...
...were photographed. Storrow, '87, had his camera in the south west end of the gallery, and Mr. Tupper, Pach's operator, had his in the north west corner. The audience hardly realized that an effort was being made to photograph them, and did not sit very still, so the worth of the result is rather doubtful. Mr. Tupper took two and Mr. Storrow one picture...
...programme for the Yale Bicycle Club meeting is not yet made out, but one event will be a twenty mile race for a handsome cup worth $1,500, which must be won three times in order to be kept. There will be several hundred dollars in prizes besides this...
...store the vast mass of abstracts and quotations from books and manuscripts which he designs to use later in the preparation of his histories. Now, I would urge that some such plan be adopted in the library in the matter of such newspaper clippings as it may seem worth while to select and index...