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...brought before the reader's eyes. There is a reality in those waves tossing and tumbling which suggests a wonderful power of description in the writer. An admirable poem on Fate follows this and shows a depth of thought seldom exhibited in college poetry. "Unappreciated Talent" is a Seri-comic story written in a very bright vein and serves to lighten up the solemnity which the preceding articles give the paper...
...dabble much in literature; our effusions are accepted and refused by the college papers, refused and accepted by the magazines and comic papers, from the "Atlantic Monthly" to "Tid Bits", but to almost every litterateur, his aim is to write something acceptable for the moment; to grapple earnestly with literature never occurs to him. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character...
...Stubbs in stocks on the left. The captives following the directions of an oftconsulted manual, mesmerise the prison-bars and escape, singing a chorus from "Hermanie;" they leave the stage to Stubbs, who sings a gag song written for the occasion by Mr. Pepper, and after some very comic stage business exits. A second scene shows us the interior of a puritan drawing-room, inhabited by cats. Enter Dorothy and Pricilla who sing a nursery hymn very effectively, accompanying it with a very gracefully danced step. Suddenly two reservation Indians in all the paraphernalia of their lucrative profession burst...
...monopolizing public interest in college games, they received a courteous slap in the face, which, we trust, will have a beneficial effect. Such a scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present champions. - Life. Ah, indeed...
...extravaganza "Romulus and Remus." The play went off as smoothly as could be desired; the "grinds" were fresh and very amusing, though bearing rather hard upon Boston and Bostonians; the costumes, especially those of the Romans and Sheperdesses, were very striking; and the music, artistically adapted from the latest comic operas by Mr. Daniels, was very well rendered by the Boston Cadet Band under his direction. The plot, it is needless to say, abounded with anachronisms and absurdities which made it all the more amusing. Romulus and Remus are in love with Proserpina; they fight a duel about...