Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theater Guild's production of "Porgy" returns to the Hollis, after a year, with no loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy...
...first debate of the year will be with the New Jersey Law School at Newark, New Jersey, on Friday, November 8, the week-end of the Michigan game. The team will leave Cambridge on Friday, debate that evening, spend the next day in New York City, and return by boat on Sunday night. All expenses of team members will be paid...
Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Large Fogg Lecture Room Heathcote William Garrod. Fellow of Merton College and Sometime Professor of Poetry at Oxford, who holds the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry here this year, will deliver the first of his fair lectures...
...blush, every year, on the Monday morning following Lantern Night. The Freshmen, in the pristine glory of their untilted caps appear before us in wistful immaturity. We pity them, and we cannot be of service. Somehow, to give their caps a gentle shove to right or left smacks of the embarrassment of dropping dimes in beggars caps; the grateful glances of the aided are so humiliating to all concerned. And yet, friends, it is not even this that causes us our heated blush. It is that so many of us, in years gone by, have stealthily tipped our caps ourselves...
...this acquaintance be of necessity limited only to the fleeting contact between a lecturer and his listeners. It is to be hoped that tonight's speaker, Dr. Reisner, professor of Egyptology, will be but one of many Harvard professors to be heard in the Union's Living Room this year and in years to come...