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An orb as brilliant as the sun,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FABLE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

SOME time since an article proposing the establishment of a German society in college appeared in the columns of the Advocate. We are glad to announce that this suggestion was favorably received, and a society formed, which consists at present of some twenty-five members, the limit of membership being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

BELOW is a specimen of orthography and geography at a recent examination for admission to Bowdoin College. The written papers on Geography contained the following: "Nare ganset," "Pernobscot," "Florady," "Mississuri," "Iterly." The Catskill Mountains were credited by one writer to Vermont; by another to Pennsylvania. The Alps to Asia, by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

The Globe.Last Saturday night Madame Janauschek appeared as Lady Macbeth, her greatest impersonation. With the exception of a few peculiarities of pronunciation, which soon escape notice as the play proceeds, her conception and delivery of the part was beyond all criticism, and the character was represented with a force and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

Doubtless an experienced critic in examining our attempts at drollery would say at once that they were strained, unnatural, from the fact that clearness of style, consistency of thought, in short, all the requisites of finished work, had been sacrificed to the one idea of saying something funny.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POPULAR WRITER. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »