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...events, it has been decided that there shall be three performances with two different casts, and on each occasion there will be given a farce and a burlesque. The Glee Club will sing between the acts, and thus add another attraction to the theatricals and form an additional element of their success. We hope certainly that undergraduates will not be satisfied with securing seats for themselves, but will aid as much as possible in placing tickets among their friends. The tickets, we believe, will be ready in a day or two, and may be obtained of any of the gentlemen...
...them has two loves, one in high and one in low life; both the heroines sprain their ankles and have to be carried home, and so on through the books. Both the authors are excellent when they describe college scenes, both fail when they introduce an irrelevant romantic element. The chief merit of "Tom Brown at Rugby" is that it tells exclusively of school life; the chief defect of "Tom Brown at Oxford," and one which Mr. Severance has unfortunately imitated, is that college life is made of secondary importance. Neither Mr. Hughes nor Mr. Severance is a first...
...fielding at second was one of the features of the game; a most brilliant fly catch marking his play. Tyng, as usual, sustained his reputation at the bat. Nunn and Alger played well for the Beacons in the field; while Moore carried off the honors at the bat. The element of the "unwashed" predominated so largely among the audience, and made itself so decidedly objectionable, that the officers of the Base-Ball Club have decided to rope the field in and have police-men in attendance at the game to-morrow. Below is the score...
...OEstrus comes out strongly in favor of women's rights, and its "editorial affairs" are to be managed, in part, by young ladies of the University of California. After co-education comes co-editing. The gentler sex is, according to the OEstrus, "an acknowledged superior element in the college." The OEstrus is apparently conscious of its own defects, as the following observation shows : "This acquisition will tend to add dignity and tone to the paper, and prevent it from possibly falling into that low strain which we have seen in some issues of our contemporaries...
...Presence of Didactic Purpose in a Novel an Element of Strength or Weakness...