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...even this powerful means of communion of the stage with the spectators is limited in its potency. . . In a whole series of dramas, classic as well as modern, the feeling of terror is sometimes suggested to the spectator, not only by word and mimicry, but by the very object of his terror, for instance, the ghost, or some other object of hallucination. The object of the dramatist here is clear; in order that the spectator may have at a given moment nearly the same experience as the acting character, it is necessary that he see the same thing...
...primary object of the Harvard University Band is to furnish suitable music during intervals in the football games and to encourage the singing of Harvard songs by the student body. At the more important games we offer more elaborate programs in preparing letter formations and in playing the songs of the visiting college whenever possible...
...also state that Mr. Henderson would not care to be styled plain "Henderson." I cannot see why he should object to that because that is the highest dignity. We do not speak of Mr. Shakespeare or Mr. Byron or Mr. Washington and Jefferson, but simply use their names...
...Justice Taft read the original docket, some of the cases on which are 20 years old-the first occasion on which it has been done in years. As usual the docket had grown by some 100 cases. The Court is more than two years behind in its business. The object of reading the docket was to put in force new regulations given to the Court by act of the last Congress, empowering it to decline to hear many cases and thus abbreviate its docket. Among the cases thrown out under this ruling was a whole series of cases...
Senator Caraway and other Democrats are inclined to laugh at items on the Republican tariff schedules. Another object of their laughter has been the flexible tariff (the clause in the Tariff Act whereby the President is authorized on recommendation by the Tariff Commission to increase or decrease specific tariffs by not more than 50%, so, as to equalize cost of production between the U. S. and principal competing countries). They point out that the President has increased the duty on certain grains and various minor products; that in spite of the Tariff Commission's recommendation, the President has declined...