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...illness. He is to read "Julius Caesar," "Henry IV," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Winter's Tale." We are particularly anxious to hear his personation of Fallstaff, in which, we have been told, he is at his best, and from what we know of Prof. Raymond and the famous fat knight, we can easily imagine it must be irresistibly droll. Then we are to have a lecture on "Household Art," by Walter Smith, which is to be given next week, and we will not fail to fill many of our winter evenings in some such interesting and pleasant...
...came to Cambridge with a capital of $10 and passed the examinations, told me the reason he selected Harvard out of the four hundred colleges of the country: "I got by accident an old dictionary of American biography and read it through, and it seemed to me that most famous Americans had been educated at Harvard...
...takes eight hundred full-blown roses to make a single tablespoonful of the famous perfume, and you can get enough perfume out of an onion to drive a dog on the gallop out of a slaughter house. And yet we admire the rose more than we do the onion. - [Post...
...have turned the tables on antiquity. OEdipus became famous by solving a riddle, and now Riddle retaliates by interpreting OEdipus...
...John Cotton Smith, descendant of the famous Cotton family, died in New York yesterday...