Word: performance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...voting, two considerations should be kept in mind: first, what a candidate has done in his college career to merit the honor, and second, whether he is fitted to perform the duties of the position he seeks...
Each one of us has a task of patriotism to perform towards the country, but more than that, the spirit of the University, its patriotism or its indifference towards the welfare of the nation, will be determined by the number of men who are willing to render service. The reputation of Harvard, with respect to its willingness as a public servant, depends upon the amount of individual sacrifice its members are willing to make...
...usually the older generation which holds firm in well-grooved paths the car of progress; it is the younger men who supply much of the energy and who usually point out the new directions in which progress may move. With proper flexibility and sane guidance both perform a highly valuable function in civilization. But when conservatism becomes reactionary, and when radicalism becomes flighty, the car is in danger of losing its balance...
...productions. Thus, in "Carmen," which is being given tonight, the complete ballet will be introduced as originally composed by Bizet. This ballet has never before been given in its entirety in this country. In cases where there is no ballet in the opera given, the "Ballet Russe" is to perform as a separate number. Tomorrow night the Pavlowa company will present the "Snow Flakes" ballet from Tschaikowsky's "Nutcracker Suite." This will follow the performance of "Madame Butterfly" with Tamaki Miura, the only Japanese prima donna in the world and the operatic sensation of the year, singing the title role...
This is but the first of many such free legal institutions being established in other colleges and universities of this country, of which the Bureau in the University Law School was the first. Their object is to perform a valuable social service by helping to alleviate the position of the poor who have been unlawfully deprived of their liberty or possessions, and to accomplish the best and highest aims of the profession...