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...answer to a cheer, President Eliot then spoke of the pleasure it would give him to keep the clock in the study of his Brattle street home, and in closing proposed a cheer for President Lowell. After singing "Fair Harvard," the assemblage broke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVATION TO PRESIDENT ELIOT | 5/20/1909 | See Source »

...history of the drama in France showed this leaning toward paganism to such a marked degree that by 1630 the clergy was unequivocally opposed to it. With the production of Moliere's "L'Ecole des Femmes" in 1662, the long-maturing conflict between the clergy and the new literature broke forth. Louis XIV was compelled to banish this comedy for a time from the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Hyde Lecture Yesterday | 4/6/1909 | See Source »

After a few minutes' rest another period of ten minutes was played in which the University team added another score, but that was all they could do, as the second played a purely defensive game and broke up all attempts at team-play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday's Hockey Practice | 2/10/1909 | See Source »

Newton's brilliant playing was easily the best shown in the game; he broke up many of Brown's plays and threw several very good goals. Allen and Currie also did good work for the University. For Brown, Hill and McKay played the best games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN LOST AT BASKETBALL | 1/25/1909 | See Source »

...naive peddler. Hartwell himself was taken by R. M. Middlemass '09, whose acting grew steadily better from beginning to end, a gentle, noble, and at every crisis finely impassioned figure. Miss Gragg in an uneven role gave through the last two acts so sincere a performance that the house broke into applause at her defiance of the Rabbi, and then at the last became physically uncomfortable over her anguish at Hartwell's well-acted deatn. Her appeals, her sobs, her despair, were surprisingly effective. It would be easy to go on commending: the solicitude of Gregov, as played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PROMISED LAND" A SUCCESS | 12/16/1908 | See Source »

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