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Judic, the famous French actress, will probably come to America next winter, accompanied by M. Coquelin...
...disappeared. A few years ago an effort was made to organize a club, but with little success. It was proposed to have a regular club-room, with the proverbial tea served to players, and in short it was to be fashioned after the manner of the whist clubs so famous in London during the past century. The latter scheme was soon recognized as impracticable, for reasons that will readily be apparent. It seems, however, that there are enough ardent admirers of the game in college to establish some sort of an organization which we are sure would soon become popular...
...delegates of the Clarendon Press have determined upon an extension of the limits of the great dictionary of the English Philological Society, which will now much exceed Littre's famous work. The work, it is well known, is under the editorial charge of Dr. Murray, and he has thirty able scholars as assistants. Beside these, more than one thousand readers in the English speaking world have assisted in gathering quotations from every important book in the language. Prof. March of Lafayette College has been the American editor. An exceedingly interesting history can some day be written of this great enterprise...
...Ellmenreich, a famous German actress, scored a great success in New York as Jane Eyre. She is the first actress who has rightly conceived and interpreted this charming character...
...Tech grieves because donors of gifts to colleges "naturally, perhaps not always wisely, select an old and famous seat of learning as the recipient of their bequest. Nowhere is the dictum, 'Unto him that hath, it shall be given,' more exactly true than in respect to college funds. The few thousands and the library of John Harvard have yielded a return of honor beyond the power of any succeeding legacy...