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...about 36 strokes a minute drew a half a length ahead of the second in a short spurt. Another start was tried above the bridge, but here the crew did not seem to go as well as before. The boat did not space quite as far between strokes, the fault seeming to be in the catch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVENTH HOUR SHAKE-UP | 5/8/1913 | See Source »

...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 of the first act showing the Bazaar Street of the Tailors. If any fault is to be found it must be that the play contains too many interpolations in the way of songs and the like, which, while entertaining in themselves, add little or nothing to the progress of the play and very seriously try the patience of an audience which is asked...

Author: By G. SANTAYANA ., | Title: New Plays in Boston | 3/27/1913 | See Source »

...class is at present woefully behind in contributions for the new gymnasium. The fault lies with the collectors and with the class in general. We are now last. Let us climb out of this place before Wednesday. 1914 GYMNASIUM COMMITTEE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Collectors Get Busy | 3/25/1913 | See Source »

...chords may not be dissonances; on the contrary, they must be capable of strict analysis, otherwise they cease to be music. Neither must progressions by too ambiguous on penalty of the effect being flat and dull. Mr. Spelman's notions of dissonance need revision, but it is not his fault: our whole musical nomenclature needs it before one may be sure what another is talking about...

Author: By Robert W. Atkinson ., | Title: Musical Review for February | 2/18/1913 | See Source »

That the social evil in American cities is the fault of men and not of women was the conclusion reached by Dean Walter Taylor Sumner of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Chicago, in his lecture on "Efficient Citizenship" at the Union last evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REMEDIES FOR SOCIAL EVILS | 2/18/1913 | See Source »

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