Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Deutscher Verein will give the first production of its sixteenth annual play "Zwei Wappen" in Jordan Hall, Boston, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a four-act comedy, in which antiquated German aristocracy and progressive American spirit are sharply contrasted. The affections of a young German nobleman for an American girl, who is the daughter of a wealthy, self-made packer, and the opposition of the nobleman's parents to this alliance form the basis of the plot...
...Carb's "The Voice of the People" differs from most recent plays on the subject of boss-rule in that its realism is not a mere sham. The ordinary political drama shows a boss whose wickedness is monstrous, in conflict with a young reformer whose intelligence and altruism are superhuman. Mr. Carb has bravely faced the truth that the problem is never quite so simple. His young heroine begins as a worshipper of her uncle, the boss Dan Magee, who seems so strong and generous; and only gradually she comes to suspect that the system he personifies is corrupt...
...People" is a social drama in the best sense of the word. It draws a picture of a ward in any tenement district of any large city in this country at the time of a closely contested election. Its plot centers about the contest and victory of a young Irish girl over the ward boss, her uncle...
...working fifteen hours out of the twenty-four. The multitude of private clubs have undercut its clientele, Freshmen who live in the Union transfer their haunting grounds in their Sophomore and Junior years. In spite of a popular impression to the contrary, Cambridge is a place where young men are astonishingly busy. The town has the distinction of providing more attractive places of loaf in, and less time to loaf in them, than any other spot in the world. And the Union is only one of many...
Every fall some six or seven hundred young men come to Cambridge from all parts of this country and foreign countries, bringing with them different ideals bred and fostered by diverse training and prepared to become cultured and educated men through the intermingling of ideals and ideas by athletic, social and intellectual intercourse. To these men assembled in Freshman gatherings all sorts of advice and exhortations are presented, and the valuable opportunities of college life are set forth. But after these few meetings the Freshman class splits up into a large number of small groups, for the most part isolated...