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Everything is to be gained from a good start, and from all appearances the Freshman football team has lost no time in getting under way. Freshman teams since 1903 have regularly been defeated by Groton in one of the early games of the season and it is pleasing to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1912 TEAM STARTS WELL. | 10/12/1908 | See Source »

Miss Adams was fascinating as usual. Her Viola left little to be desired. She wrought into her part a great personal charm, and a pleasing variety of tenderness and petulant humor, thoroughly in sympathy with her role. In all her motions she was grace itself, which comes to Viola as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWELFTH NIGHT AGAIN GIVEN | 6/5/1908 | See Source »

The opening article is a sharp attack on the practice of working one's way through college; an ordinary "working-student," forced to earn money, is likely, it is said, to sacrifice health, intellectual ideals and social enjoyment; men with uncommon endowments may succeed, the majority must fall. Here undoubtedly...

Author: By Crawford H. Toy., | Title: The June Monthly | 5/27/1908 | See Source »

The first public performance of Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" was given last night at Brattle Hall by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. The success of the play does not hang on the plot, which is slender, but on its unusual scenes, its swift action, its stinging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Successful Presentation of D. U. Play | 4/4/1908 | See Source »

Of the poetry, E. E. Hunt's translation and P. A. Hutchison's "Quatrain" are well-phrased, and the "Song" by W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez has a pleasing melody. But most notable is J. H. Wheelock's "Dawn in the City," which, in spite of serious defects, is well worth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Neilson Reviews Advocate | 2/14/1908 | See Source »

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