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Next week the Castle Square singers will take up for the first time Donizetti's thrilling grand opera, "Lucia Di Lammermoor." This opera is founded on Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor," and the scene is laid in Scotland during the seventeenth century. The heroine, Lucy Ashton, is beset by evil throughout the opera, and finally murders her husband and dies. The final scene is the death of her lover, who stabs himself...
...seventeenth annual scratch games of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Athletic Club to be held in the Technology Gymnasium on Saturday, March...
...critic, he was insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth...
Near the close of the seventeenth century the turmoil which the rapid fluctuation in the relative value of gold and silver had created, had greatly subsided. Silver had by that time reached the place which it was to occupy for a long time to come. The ratio had been changed from 11 to 1 to about...
General Walker now directed his attention to England at this period. Before the close of the seventeenth century her monetary literature was enriched by the writings of such men as Somers, Montague, Locke, and Newton. In 1666 and act of Charles II opened the mint to coinage of both metals gratuitously. This law continued in force till 1798. It was the policy of the government to treat gold as subsidiary to silver, and leave the guinea to find its own value in silver money...