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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Theatre looms up with a success of the most promounced type and of the musical comedy genius. "Lost, Strayed or Stolen," as presented here, is a work so enjoyable given with a company so efficient, with mountings so sumptuous and costumes so dainty and Parisian as to warrant the oft-repeated line in the announcements that heralded the Boston opening of this work: "Three Hours in Paris." The company provided by Miner and Brooks includes more thoroughly first class people than is often seen in one organization of any kind. The comedians, eight in number, are among the oldest...
With the present issue the senior editors sever their connection with the CRIMSON and give the paper into the hands of ninety-five. We shall not repeat here the oft-told story of successes and failures which retiring boards quite naturally like to tell; the characteristic of newspaper work is that it speaks for itself; our successes and failures have been perfectly evident and need not be specially pointed out. One thing, however, we do wish to say. The senior editors agree perfectly in this, that nothing in their college course has been of more value to them than their...
...play this year is an exceedingly witty and amusing one. It is called "Antony and Cleopatra," or "The Sinner, the Siren, and the Snake," and is still another version of the oft repeated tale of love of the Roman and the Egyptian. Following is the cast of characters...
...foreign relations. For the executive may have a policy - not approved by Congress - which he may carry out in secret to a point where the nation, without knowing the facts or the justice of the cause, may be forced into a war. * * * * It is hardly necessary to reiterate the oft-repeated criticism, that our diplomatic service is in need of reform. It is safe to say, without any undue criticism of Mr. Egan, that if we had a trained diplomat in Chile, and naval officers more inclined to follow the strict letter of their instructions, there would have been...
Judge Smith. in conclusion, then spoke of the chances of pecuniary success for the young lawyer. The oft repeated saying that "there is always room at the top" was never so true as it is today. There is probably not so much room at the foot now as there was fifty years ago, for many things done then by lawyers are now performed by others. The young lawyer must experience many years of patient waiting before he can hope for success, but if he employ these years of waiting in a profitable manner, if he keep brain...