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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...official installation ceremonies will be held at 10.30 o'clock. President Lowell will act as delegate to the inauguration from Harvard University and will deliver a short speech. At 1 o'clock a luncheon will be served to the delegates and from 3 to 4 o'clock the new president will hold a reception for the students and alumni of Clark University. From 4 to 6 o'clock the faculty and the delegates to the inauguration will be received by the president. At 8 o'clock the students of the University will present the "Oedipus Tyrannus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL AT CLARK | 2/1/1910 | See Source »

...audience sits hushed during the first act, trying to get into the situation. An understanding of the character of the "Faith Healer" is difficult to many and the failure to comprehend and unquestioningly accept the fundamental thesis will make a full appreciation of the play impossible. The point, the accumulative effect of the play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FAITH HEALER" PRESENTED | 1/25/1910 | See Source »

...Dramatic Club competition for one-act plays closes this evening. All manuscripts should be sent to P. Mariett '10, Craigie 407, before 6 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Contest Ends Today | 1/22/1910 | See Source »

...competition for one-act plays announced by the Dramatic Club has been extended until tomorrow evening. All manuscripts should be sent to P. Mariett '10, Craigie 407, before 6 o'clock on that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Play Competition Closes Tomorrow | 1/21/1910 | See Source »

...disappointment of the play is that its central theme,--the influence of a dead love on a living one,--is obscured again and again by the most obvious kind of an attempt to furnish thrills, and "sustain the interest." There is a bloodcurdling lynching in the first act, the sensationalism of which is in contrast to its trivial significance in the tragedy. It is a symptom of the danger that Mr. Sheldon's peculiar talent carries with...

Author: By W. MINOT ., | Title: Criticism of "The Nigger" | 1/10/1910 | See Source »

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