Word: reading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dramatic Club plays, Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus" and Lord Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet," were read yesterday afternoon at the Phillips Brooks House by R. T. Bushnell 2L, a former president, to the members and candidates of the Dramatic Club and the officers of the Idler Club at Radcliffe, who are co-operating with the University players in the selection of the female characters. Over 150 were present...
...plays will be read this afternoon at 3.30 in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, to members and candidates. Candidates for all departments are expected to attend. Acting trials will be held Thursday and Friday, and appointments may be made at the reading. The performances in Cambridge will be on December 9, 10 and 11, and in Boston on the 12th, the Wilbur Theatre having been engaged for the purpose. Plans for out of town productions will be announced later...
What subtle irony! What an efficient pricking of the German sympathy bubble! Our sentimental friends who plead for pity on "poor bleeding Germany" should read this letter. The memory of Louvain called up here so vividly would perhaps deter them from their path of mercy...
...most interesting gift in the form of a scrap-book has recently been received by Widener Library from Charles C. Read '64. In this volume he kept a record of his undergraduate days by clippings from the Boston Evening Transcript, programs, official notices, invitations and other mementos. Many crew regatta programs are pasted throughout the scrap-book. One is of particular interest as it tells of the race in which crimson was first taken as the Harvard color. In another place a long clipping from the Transcript tells of the visit to this country of "Albert of Belgium," now King...
...recent CRIMSON editorial reference is made to the "average educated man's" conception of a missionary. In justice to the old-time missionary, the "average educated man" would do well to read the lives of John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides; of Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma; of David Livingstone, missionary to Africa; of Hans Egede, missionary to Iceland. If, after a careful persusal of the lives of these men, he still has any lingering doubts that the missionary is not a long-haired non-producer, but a person of heroic character and the moulder of people from...