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...ahead of their time; while Minus Infinity, the same distance on the other side of the earth, is three centuries behind the time on earth. This occasioned a laughable error at Minus Infinity a few centuries ago. We had just found out that the world was coming to an end in the 25th century; we were then hearing from the 18th century on earth; we therefore sent word to Minus Infinity that in seven hundred years would happen the destruction of the world. But they, forgetting to transpose our system of time to theirs, announced that the end...
...music was remarkably well rendered. Mr. Osgood sang his solo with great spirit, but his voice was scarcely equal to the part. We cannot venture on a criticism of the composition, but we must mention the exquisite theme which appears at the end of the second chorus and elsewhere, and is indeed the gem of the opera. It shows the same sympathetic spirit which animates the slow movement of Mr. Paine's First Symphony, though the latter has more of voluptuous tranquillity and less of tear-starting pain. Let those who did not appreciate the passage pronounce this expression fantastic...
...merits of the music, and the special request printed at the end of the programme, should have prevented the uprising during the orchestral postlude. Shall it be necessary to restrain "a large and fashionable audience including all the local celebrities," by a provision that no one shall be let out until half an hour after the conclusion of the performance? This offence at all events is not to be laid at the door of Harvard students...
Poor Jones had barely attained to his twentieth year, but there is great reason to believe that but for reasons of a pecuniary nature, his single life would have come to an earlier end. A change for the better in his circumstances taking place, the young lady's friends sanctioned his addresses and thus became accessories to the course for which he has just suffered...