Word: freak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hasty Pudding Club gave "The Duenna, or the Freak, the Frump, and the Friar" before an audience which crowded the club's theatre. The play was exceedingly well presented and acting, singing, scenery and costumes combined to make it most successful. Mr. Weaver as Sir Barney E'Claire made the hit of the evening. His rich humor, good acting and typical songs called forth loud applause. Olivia, his promised bride was well taken by Mr. V. S. Sears, whose dancing and acting were also very good. Mr. Prescott acted the part of the Duenna to perfection. The love scene between...
...take the boat for New York on Wednesday evening, April 3d, and will play at the Berkeley Lyceum, on April 4, 5, and 6. On April 25, 26, and 27, public entertainments will be given in Boston in Union Hall, Boylston street. The play is called "Duenna, or the Freak, the Frump and the Friar...
...rule, like to find fault with our sister papers, but we cannot let the last freak of the Lampoon go unnoticed. That publication has declared its intention of caricaturing members of the University whenever a fitting opportunity presents itself. Now that kind of thing was tried when the Lampoon was first started, and the consequences were disastrous. College opinion objected, and with justice, to this degraded form of wit; and we beg to warn the Lampoon that it is more than probable that college opinion will object again. There is plenty of wit and versatility in a big university like...
...Historical Study of Law's system" is the title of the second article written by Mr. A. McF. Davis. It consists of an exhaustive discussion of the facts concerning the famous Banque Generale. It seems a singular freak of Providence that Sieur Law, the son of a Scotch goldsmith, should have been the man to suggest a way to help the French government out of financial shipwreck, in the early part of the eighteenth century. Law spent the early part of his life in roaming about Europe gambling and duelling and all the time turning over in his brain scheme...
...College two copies of the tri-weekly of that college. It seems that there has been a split on the editorial board, and the dissenters have published a paper similar to the regular issue, with the same advertisements and the same board of editors on the first page. This freak of journalism is very amusing...