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Miss Lane was a charming Marguerite. From her first entrance to her lonely prison cell, where her life goes out, she realized fully the sweetness and dramatic strength of the role. No one will soon forget the picture she made at the close of the opera, when the bare prison walls opened and Marguerite is seen amid the clouds, her face picturing the rapture she has lost on earth...
...seen in Rip Van Winkle. The company is most happily cast. Mr. Wolff surprised the vast audience by giving a wonderfully fife-like performance of Rip, the Village Vagabond,- all the nice tone gradations of the sympathetic scenes were most artistically made, and one cannot soon forget the finale of Act 2, where Rip falls asleep surrounded by Hendrick Hudson and his ghostly crew. Miss Lane was charming-she can do nothing badly,- while Miss Leighton added to the fun of the piece in comc love scenes with Mr. Wooley. Messrs. Persse, Murray, and Read came in for a good...
...religion, that one should push on, past the mere signs, to the power which lies behind them, is too often forgotten. Much as men will labor for mental civilization, they wish to gain easily, at a single step, a perfect faith and thorough understanding of the truth. They forget that no valuable result can be won without a struggle, and become discouraged at the very first difficulty...
...chief fault of the speakers was a tendency to forget that the peaceful annexation of Cuba was under discussion...
...begun. It has not been Harvard's practice to make attendance at religious services compulsory, but it can not be denied that her system is productive of good results. There is, however, one objection to it,- that it allows an unfortunate neglect of opportunity. Students are too likely to forget that the visiting preachers to the University are chosen from among the most noted throughout the country. To hear them from day to day, and to meet them in the friendly way which is here possible, is a privilege which all must forfeit when they leave Harvard. Nowhere else will...