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...Dafpodil's permission to marry Dorothy, and the pirates are just being led off to jail, where we find them when the curtain rises on the second act. The pirates behind the bars answer their lamenting betrothed in a song from Falka. The girls departing leave them to their fate. Follows a conversation between the pirates in the jail on the right of the stage, and Stubbs in stocks on the left. The captives following the directions of an oftconsulted manual, mesmerise the prison-bars and escape, singing a chorus from "Hermanie;" they leave the stage to Stubbs, who sings...
...Yale News of Thursday publishes an editorial urging the nine not to be so elated by the flattering newspaper paragraphs which are constantly "booming" their prospects as to become over-confident. The fate of our nine last year is held up as as a warning...
...mysteries of fate that great characters in history are often known to the world as the direct opposites of that which they really were. The misrepresentations of contemporaries, or the imaginations of succeeding ages, give such a distorted picture as to make impossible any just conception of the man. Sometimes a character, whose representations are thus distorted, becomes his own vindicator. Perhaps no great man in the world's history has been more completely misunderstood than Sardanapalus. But we may now judge him according to his works, a thing which before our day was impossible. By excavations in the ruins...
...wrote under the fictitious name of Frank Hock. One of the volumes of "The Collegian" contains "The Spectre Pig," "The Mysterious Visitor, Evening." "The Dorchester Giant," and other pieces from the pen of the since famous poet. But "The Collegian," good as it was, did not escape the fate of its predecessors, and, after the publication of six numbers, it was discontinued, presumably from non-support...
...communicate them to others." The last words are almost pathetic in their tone. "To obscurity and neglect, then, we commit the "Lyceum." In obscurity and neglect it will find honorable company, and it may be satisfied with this lot, which, though it waits the most inferior, is the fate of the most learned productions. Where are the works of Chaldean, of Persian and of Egyptian wisdom? Ages have revolved since their utter perdition, and if in the sack of Alexandria it was their office to heat the baths of the Saracens, we may be contented to cumber the shelves...