Word: elysium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that any special course could include. Why then should special study any longer be offered to those who do not care or have not sufficient energy to regularly fit themselves for the college course? But if necessity and policy both require that special students should find at Harvard that elysium which has no dawn and no setting, the government of the college in every sense pursues a wise course in requiring that they who enter the fields of pleasure should prove that they are highly qualified for entrance into the academic shades. The term of college bred must...
...evening the Casino is to open. The Casino is the Mechanics' Institute building transformed into a theatre, jardin mabille, zoological garden, opera house, gymnasium, circus; in fact it is impossible to imagine anything, calculated to contribute to the amusement of mankind, that will not be found in this new elysium. On the opening night Rice's Opera Comique Company will present "Cinderella at School," a charming operetta whose libretto is founded on a Harvard-Yale race. Mr. Rice's company is one unusually well adapted to the production of this kind of entertainment, and embraces some extremely clever actresses...