Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little too robust. Their own preconceptions of the character are, it is to be feared, a little too intense. "That wonderful child," as Mark Twain calls her in one of his finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly painting in the Metropolitan Museum. She was simply a innocent and gallant girl who said her prayers and did her duty even when it called on her to rescue a nation and die an abominable death. Up to this point, Mme. Farrar's creation is sound and historically accurate. And altogether...
...University chess team will play the Boston Chess Club in its fifth match of the Metropolitan Chess League series at the club room, Fairfax 6, tonight at 8 o'clock. Of the four matches already played the University team has won one, drawn one and lost two. The following men are scheduled for this evening's match: E. W. Axe uC, R. Johnson 1L, L. D. LeFevre '17, R. G. R. Sloane '19, A. R. Frey '19, and F. M. Kernan...
...news-editorial competition is open to Sophomores and Juniors only. Under the bi-weekly schedule, the competition is conducted along the same lines as the metropolitan daily and gives men a valuable insight into newspaper and magazine work. Ability to write clear, forceful English and plenty of original ideas are the requisites. Three positions are open to 1918 and four...
...furnish the Hospital with a machine in return for the experience to be gained by its action on living tissues. The Equitable Life Insurance Company offers its policy holders an annual free physical examination; so, also, does a group of other life insurance companies. One of these, the Metropolitan, has many industrial risks. The holders of such are visited by nurses employed by the company in order to prevent sickness, and leaflets dealing with the preservation of health are furnished all policy holders. The Eastman Kodak Company has in its employ a trained bacteriologist, having found that some...
...same general lines as was the opera last June, but enlarged. Many noted singers are to take part,-Mme. Johanna Gadski as Brunhilde; Mme. Schumann-Heink, as Fricka; Mme. Melaine Kurt, as Sieglinde; M. Johannes Sembach, as Siemunde; Clarence Whitehill, as Waton; Carl Braun, as Hunding, and other Metropolitan stars...