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...Lucia" ended the Italian opera, and our actors had a respite, during which they could patronize the orchestra-seats, and enjoy Sothern supported by Jim, Jones, big Injin, and Tom, the regulars. March ushered in the English opera, and by this time the supply exceeded the demand; indeed, there was a superabundance, and little red tickets were issued accordingly. Let us follow one to the back door, behind which Cerberus Murphy stands guard. Six o'clock strikes; the crowd has assembled, the door opens, a discriminating eye selects the tall and mature, - red siders are as good as red tickets...
...interesting side of a man's experience as super is the insight he gets into the characteristics of the prominent artists. So amusing to hear Nillson, fresh from the Tower scene, ask in our prosaic English for some pins for her sash. Another, too, lamenting in heart-rending tones the fate of Radames, and then with her back to the audience pouting at us in the wings in regular school-girl fashion, because she had soiled her hands on the dusty scenery. And then the rage of a Signor who was driven from the stage to give room...
...step in the right direction was taken when an instructor in elocution was appointed for the Senior Class, who devotes a portion of his time to each man who desires it. Such help in one's endeavors for self-improvement is invaluable, and if a similar instructor in English composition were to take the place of the present exercises in that department, few will doubt that all the students, the diligent as well as the idle, would be vastly pleased, and that the quality of the work done would be greatly improved. With such help as this given...
...view of the approaching summer, we would like to ask, Why can we not have some English sparrows in our yard, to guard against the depredations of the worms? It is true that the trees have been surrounded with tarred paper, and we earnestly hope it will serve as a protection; yet, why not take all possible precautions, especially when the sparrows are such an easy acquisition? Last year the few robins in the yard did their duty for a while, but eventually grew so fat that they could compete in size with an ordinary pigeon, and could scarcely reach...
FROM the Forest and Stream we gather the following in regard to the English crews who are to meet on Saturday next. Average weight of the Cambridge crew, 163 pounds, Average weight of the Oxford crew, 173 pounds. In the Oxford boat the stroke is the lightest man, and the bow the heaviest but one. In the Cambridge, the bow is the lightest, and the three heaviest are Nos. 4, 5, and 6. The indications of a good race are numerous, the betting being two to one in favor of the lighter crew...