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...about two weeks the scratch-races of the Athletic Association will begin, and be continued weekly until the summer meeting. They will probably be Thursday afternoons. Prizes will be given...
...Hasty Pudding for the benefit of the Boat Club will take place at Horticultural Hall, Thursday and Friday evenings, and Saturday afternoon, April 27, 28, and 29. Two burlesques and three farces will be given, each performance consisting of a burlesque, preceded by a farce. Performances to begin at eight and half past two. Tickets may now be obtained at No. 45 Weld...
...that is noble and manly in us, as the music of Beethoven, Chopin, or Schumann. To all those who have been thus far apathetic to the charms of our Evening Readings, I would say that it is not now too late to change, and strongly advise all to begin and follow through the course which is just now beginning: Dante's "Vita Nuova" and "Divina Commedia...
Another thing which accounts for the unpopularity of much of our poetry is its very affected vocabulary. About one half the sonnets begin with "O" or "Thou," and it is a chance if the author can get through without using "lush," or mentioning the nightingale; a bird rarely seen or heard, and so very useful, since imagination fills up the blank as the context requires.* What "lush" means it would be hard to say, and as for the average "O," it reminds one of the "indeed" or our ante-collegiate (?) days. If you cannot write poetry naturally, you had better...
...Long-Lost Brothers." The performance was announced to begin at eight o'clock, and at a quarter past the pianist, with commendable promptness, favored the audience with the overture, which was shortly followed by the "Elixir of Youth." This piece represents the wonderful effect which a bottle of patent-medicine has upon an old lady of seventy-five years, by renewing her youth through successive steps until she reaches the state of infancy...