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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Otis Skinner does the part of Hajj, played abroad by Mr. Oscar Asche, and Miss. Rita Jolivet that of the beggar's daughter Marriah originated by Miss Lily Brayton. It is difficult to suppose that either character could have been better portrayed in the first production than in the present. Mr. Skinner is particularly fitted through long and thorough training to give, as indeed he does, a living Hajj, the Beggar. The staging of the play evidently offered many very difficult problems but these have been met skilfully and effectively; especially is this the case in the scene...
...Little has chosen as the subject of his talk "Service Under Dr. Grenfell," and it would be difficult to find a man capable of speaking with greater authority upon this topic. For nearly six years Dr. Little has been intimately associated with Dr. Grenfell and his work. For the first three years of his service, Dr. Little was largely occupied in doing relief work--during the summer months on the schooner "Strathcona," in winter travelling by dog-team. After his third summer, he returned to this country for a few months and then went back to take entire charge...
...division of the Intercollegiate Lacrosse League for the past three years. Four years ago it tied for the title, and for the two preceding years won the championship. For the past ten years Harvard has hardly known defeat in lacrosse. Though this year's schedule is considered an unusually difficult one, there is no reason to believe that the team will fall to uphold its enviable past record...
...University squad of 50 men worked out regularly for five weeks last fall, a good opportunity for examination of material being offered by the 26 games which were played. Owing to the vacancies caused by graduation, Captain Wingate and Coach Sexton are confronted with a difficult problem in the building up of a strong team, in spite of the fact that there is much good material...
...establishment of such an intercollegiate competition is certainly very desirable, and its application would not be difficult. Any plan that is bound to increase undergraduate interest in scholarship and literary work is meritorious. This suggestion, if carried out, would have this influence, because it introduces the element of competition with an old and respected rival. It furnishes a definite and practical goal, which undergraduates would feel to be tangible and well worth striving after. Then, too, although the proposal has a financial aspect, and donations are scarce when new libraries and other buildings are going up, its practical application would...