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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GLOBE THEATRE. - The well-known spectacular drama, "The Black Crook," has been played at this theatre during the week, and is likely to continue for some time, to judge from the size of the audiences. The scenery is as fine, perhaps, as any ever shown in Boston; and the corps de ballet is large, though not thoroughly well trained...
...fund has been subscribed to insure the appearance of the paper for some time; and at present it is intended that the whole body of contributors and guarantors shall form a general committee to elect the editors and control the management. The paper is to be of the same size (quarto) as the Cambridge University Reporter...
...anxious to profit by your history. Very well, sir, if you do write the thesis it won't add anything to your mark. If you don't, I shall take off twenty per cent. I mark according to the state of a man's health, the size of his head, and my general idea of the time he goes to bed. I give the highest mark to the man who gets worst used up by the course. You are looking altogether too well, and unless you become excessively pale by the end of the year, I shall feel obliged...
...pennies of the verdant. In one tent, N. H. 2, were the Living Skeleton and the Bearded Lady; in a second, Hist 5, were the Dwarf and the Big-headed Boy; and a third, N. H. 6, contained a large collection of vegetables, especially some beets of mammoth size. Phil 5 contained a living crocodile, and was connected with F. A. 2, in which was a gorgeous panorama of Egypt and the Holy Land. Sanskt seems to have been an exhibition of stump-pullers, and Hebr undoubtedly was a jackass race. These are only a small part of the amusements...
...near being rowed a few days thereafter; and, in general, it seems far easier to hold together an existing class six, already flushed with victory, than to organize de now a college eight or even four. Particular classes in different colleges may sometimes happen to be approximately equal in size, even when there is great disparity in that respect between the colleges themselves. Furthermore, an oarsman may fairly be presumed to have less hesitancy in trying his luck when he feels that the odium of possible defeat will attach to the name of his class rather than to the name...