Word: performance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more will the Harvard student homeward bound with his bulging suitcase, his rattling golf sticks, his tennis racket, and proverbial musical instrument, be seen tearing frantically through the human swarm on Summer street. No more will he have to perform superhuman feats of line-plunging, of long distance running, of athletic leaping over intervening horses, wagons, and automobiles, only to arrive as the last car of his train rolls majestically from the South Station. The great work is complete at last; science is vindicated. The oldest Senior who said gloomily that it would never be finished is a prophet without...
...prison camps of the warring countries of Europe. This work has received little publicity in the country on account of the necessity of doing the work as quietly as possible in the early months of the war when the chief problem was to obtain permission of the governments to perform this service. It was only careful diplomatic work and promises to do in one country just what was being done in the enemy's country, that opened the way. This effort is of particular interest to Americans because the work has been financed in this country, while the actual workers...
...meeting Friday afternoon. Major Cole and Captain Downing, of the United States Corps of Engineers, will be on hand to explain this year's plans. Last year the corps was somewhat hampered by lack of sufficient equipment, which now will be furnished by the government, enabling the corps to perform the same service as that demanded of the army engineers...
...number of concerts being given each year in and around Boston. The instrumental clubs are composed of men who play a number of instruments,--mandolin, banjo, banjeaurine, guitar, violin, 'cello, mandola, piccolo, traps, etc. Members are required, except in cases of men of marked ability and skill, to perform upon two instruments...
...training; and it is hoped in the advanced courses of the School to bring about a close co-operation between the corps of instructors on the one hand and the business community on the other. It is here that the School of Business will find an unexampled opportunity and perform an unexampled service. Just as the finest medical schools can exist only where there are the greatest hospitals, that is, in the large centres of population, so that the most successful schools of business in the future may be expected to be found in the great centres of business life...