Word: talents
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Deutscher Verein are well-supported and usually successful; and if this is the case, it seems safe to assume an even greater success for plays which have a more popular and racial appeal. Moreover the Harvard Dramatic Club will, by a series of competitions, select the best acting talent in the University as a whole; its sphere is far greater than any existing organization; its chances are, then, far better. At almost every other college of considerable size, there is a dramatic club, which presents in English modern plays, of popular appeal, with a cast carefully selected from the best...
...Harvard men took the lead in establishing the first college musical organization in America, and the Pierian Sodality now reaches its hundredth anniversary on March 6. The success of the orchestra has varied from year to year with the musical talent available, but 1908 finds it in a very good way for excellent attainment in classical music...
Plays every year or every few years will meet with a warm reception in Cambridge, but they will not have as much effect as more frequent exhibitions of talent, even if it is amateurish. At present the inspiration to future play-wrights comes from club theatricals and Boston performances. Would it not be possible to develop, with the assistance of the English Department, a series of plays which would open opportunities to talent representing the entire University? As a centre for this activity we should suggest the Union. Monthly plays would be of value to the embryo writers and actors...
...Langdon who has recently been reelected District Attorney of San Francisco, has become the most powerful reform figure in the politics of the Far West. A public executive of exceptional organizing ability, he has surrounded himself with the best expert talent of the nation and in less than two years has been responsible for redeeming the City of San Francisco from the clutch of graft and corruption. At various times he has held a nomination for public office from every political party in San Francisco-Democratic, Republican, Independence League, Union Labor and Non-Partisan-and in turn he has broken...
...often that a really enduring composition is evolved. This is surely not due to lack of capable musicians, for Harvard certainly has its share of accomplished performers and composers. It is rather due, we believe, to the fact that the best class of musical talent in the University feels a distaste for writing a popular air. This is indeed a false prejudice, for while their scope is limited to music which will "sing" well, there should be a great opportunity to improve the quality of such music and incidentally to produce a masterpiece which will not pass from memory with...