Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most successful plays now running on Broadway are products of Harvard playwrights, Fred Ballard, and Cleves Kinkead, both graduates of Professor Baker's Englsih 47. Mr. Ballard's "Young America" has been written since he left Harvard, but Mr. Kinkead's Common Clay", last year's Craig Prize Play which had the record run of seventeen weeks at the Castle Square Theatre, was written while here. The fact that seats for both these plays are selling eight weeks ahead is the strongest possible refutation of Broadway's former asseveration that the University's professor made playwrights are too impracticable...
...Fitch '00, the third speaker, told of the advantages of being a young man at a time when the future promises such huge developments in social and industrial life...
...fallen heroes became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early ploughing had uncovered them, with the result that in many places the air was black with crows hovering about in search of carion. A strapping young peasant girl, whom we found later in the day doing two men's work in the heavy fields, told us a moving tale of how German soldiers had forced her at the point of the bayonet to dig graves for their fallen dead...
...nevertheless found time for much besides study. Whatever interested others in the way of physical sport or social diversion interested him and in everything he excelled. He brought to his work as a teacher and dean a sympathetic nature which readily understood the varied aspirations and interests of the young men under him. They felt him to be, as indeed he was, their friend; and like a friend he demanded their best and secured it. He was never too busy with study to deal with his students personally. He knew them individually and devoted himself unreservedly to them...
...Forty-fourth annual banquet of the Dental School Alumni Association, at Young's Hotel, Boston...