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About sixty freshmen attended Oscar Wilde's lecture at Music Hall last evening. They were dressed in a fantastic costume, consisting of a dress coat, knee breeches, black stockings and a striking blue or green necktie. Many wore nigs of the Bunthorne style, and each had two or more large sunflowers. They created much amusement when they marched up the aisle in their limp and languid manner. We are happy to be able to state that during the whole performance they were very quiet and orderly - much more so, in fact, than many other portions of the audience. Mr. Wilde...
...love of the classical, and an adoration of the beautiful, is a decided sham. The beautiful setting of this play, which has never been surpassed in magnitude in Boston, has failed to draw as large an audience as the smallest that ever greeted such a play as the "Black Crook." And this is aesthetic Boston...
EDITORS OF THE HARVARD HERALD. - Gentlemen: Probably few of your readers know what a pleasant and instructive afternoon they can pass strolling through the galleries of the leading art stores of Boston. Dropping into Noyes & Blakeslee's can be found a choice collection of black and white sketches by the Salmagundi Sketch Club of New York. A few of the most striking sketches are: a beach scene, by F. S. Church, entitled "A Windy Day." The artist seems to have caught the spirit of the occasion - a solitary figure of a young girl on the beach, a few fishing hamlets...
...classes by the faculty and trustees. The guests were quite numerous, and seemed to be having a very pleasant time. They were entertained in and about the halls and parlors of the first floor, which presented quite a fine appearance compared with anniversary days, and the girls varied the black silk uniform usual at our receptions be some very dressy toilets. The "lion" of the evening was Locke Richardson, who gave a selection from "Henry V." Music and a refreshment room to be resorted to, easily beguiled the time till the coaches bore away our guests...
GLOBE. - "Black Crook...