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Dates: during 1880-1880
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When I entered, my mind well primed with the stock books on Harvard, I had exalted ideas of accomplishing great deeds on land and water. I first essayed football. One afternoon sufficed to convince me that I was not a second Herbert Leeds, and that frequent collisions with mother earth were not becoming to my style of beauty. To this day my neck has not recovered from the twist it received that afternoon when I rolled on Holmes Field beneath Harrington...
...First, I can tell you the names of all the men who have been on the Team, Nine, or Crew, for the last three years, with a running commentary on each one; very valuable information, I assure you, sir, as you would find, if you took a girl out to see a base ball or football match...
GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday, at 2. Mitchell's Pleasure Party in "Our Goblins; or, Fun on the Rhine," opened at this theatre on Monday. The piece has been much improved since its first production in the spring, and is now quite worth seeing...
...Conly as Giacomo; both are excellent actors. Tomorrow's matinee, "Carmen," with Marie Roze in the title role, in which she sings and acts delightfully, and is well supported by Mr. Byron as Don Jose, and Mr. Carleton as Escamillo. To-morrow night, "The Bohemian Girl." Next week, the first production in this country, we believe, of Boito's "Mefistofele," of which much has been heard from London. November 22, N. C. Goodwin's Froliques in "Hobbies." Not a seat in the orchestra, and very few seats in the house, remain unsold for Sarah Bernhardt's engagement, - December...
PARK THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday, at 2. "The charming Lotta" is back again, appearing here, for the first time, as Little Nell, and as the Marchioness, in "The Old Curiosity Shop." It must be confessed that, notwithstanding her brightness and vivacity, she is less at home in these parts than as Musette, which is promised for Monday...