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...orchestra-seats, and enjoy Sothern supported by Jim, Jones, big Injin, and Tom, the regulars. March ushered in the English opera, and by this time the supply exceeded the demand; indeed, there was a superabundance, and little red tickets were issued accordingly. Let us follow one to the back door, behind which Cerberus Murphy stands guard. Six o'clock strikes; the crowd has assembled, the door opens, a discriminating eye selects the tall and mature, - red siders are as good as red tickets in some cases, - and the lucky ones pass in, and the little men and late-comers...
...super is the insight he gets into the characteristics of the prominent artists. So amusing to hear Nillson, fresh from the Tower scene, ask in our prosaic English for some pins for her sash. Another, too, lamenting in heart-rending tones the fate of Radames, and then with her back to the audience pouting at us in the wings in regular school-girl fashion, because she had soiled her hands on the dusty scenery. And then the rage of a Signor who was driven from the stage to give room for an encore...
After this sickening manifestation of anthro-pophagic barbarity, the Sophomores turned back upon Boston, and the latest telegrams announce that they are at present engaged in devouring the lightning-rods on the new Post-Office building...
...helpless railroad, the detachment rejoined the main body, which had now reached Cambridge, and a general work of devastation was inaugurated; telegraph-poles were torn down and eaten by the more voracious of the monsters; paving-stones were torn up and thrown into Charles River until the Back Bay Problem was completely solved, no water being now visible for miles around; lamp-posts were thrust into the chimneys of dwelling-houses, and a pyramid of horse-cars five hundred feet in height was constructed, which, with all such drivers, conductors, and passengers as were so unfortunate as to be captured...
...Botume gave a short history of the career of the class since its entrance, touching on its record in base-ball and boating, and alluding to the abolition of hazing as an act which the class would look back to with pride hereafter...