Word: acting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...purpose, displayed, as a rule, the most firm and unblushing fronts. Some few instances of sheepishness there were, to be sure, and one Freshman, on the entrance of the urbane investigators, bashfully retreated to his bedroom, whence he was dislodged with some difficulty. All admitted the meanness of the act, and several gentlemen could express the violence of their indignation only by the use of words which even sporting papers banish from their columns. Most of them had no doubt but that some Freshmen resident in the entry were the guilty men, but none had the faintest idea what Freshmen...
YEOMAN. Does Salvyny act this aft'noon...
...sure to accrue to the ward from such action. Wherein lies the difference between an appeal to students and an appeal to the "educated," who are, after all, only students who have graduated from college, and forgotten much if not most of what they have learned there, who cannot act so much as a unit, and who are not so easily accessible as students. Though the latter are less numerous, they should not find themselves entirely neglected, as they are now, on that account. You will very probably say that educated men gain an experience of men and affairs, after...
...impersonation of the part is an excellent example of his power of identifying himself with the character he represents. In each look, gesture, and motion we see only Shylock; the personality of the actor is completely hidden in that of the Jew. The interview with Tubal, in the fourth act, and the "trial scene," which closes the play, give the best opportunity for dramatic effect, and Mr. Booth's acting, in those passages, comes as near perfection as any that the present generation will be likely...
...Pres.; J. E. Ware, Treas.; J. K. Berry, Sec., and W. F. Kip and H. C. Ernst as an executive committee. It was voted that the nine be kept up for the purpose of furthering the interests of base ball in the University. N. A. Perry was elected to act as Captain, although his injury will prevent his taking an active part in any of the games. After a vote of thanks for his valuable services had been tendered the last-named gentleman, the meeting was adjourned sine...