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...attendance at services is not compulsory, to our surprise nearly all the students were present. The Faculty appear in a body upon the platform, and produce a much finer effect than the distribution of a select few in sentinel-boxes. The appearance of a score of ladies in the front seats strikes a visitor from a staid institution for males as somewhat peculiar. He soon begins to admire, however, and concludes that they are decidedly more ornamental than carved work or fresco. Singing is a pleasant feature of the devotional exercises, is led by a lady organist, and heartily supported...
...Academy (London) says of Miss Cushman's retirement from the stage; "She played 'Lady Macbeth' before an audience which hung on her performance with the utmost enthusiasm. Afterwards, Mr. Cullen Bryant gave her a laurel-wreath, and some leading citizens of New York bore torches in front of her as she went home to her hotel...
...voilant son front calme et doux...
...knight, ship, and four pawns. These men were drawn up in the left-hand corners; the allied forces being diagonally opposite one another. The king was four squares from the end, the elephant next, while the knight and ship occupied the two remaining squares, and a pawn stood in front of each. All these pieces moved in the same way as they do now, with the exception of the pawns and ships. The pawns moved but one square at a time. The ships could only command the third square from them in their diagonals, and, although they had the power...
...bonfire last evening in front of Holden was the occasion of one of those reckless displays of heroism which will some day immortalize our College fire department. The cheers with which the assembled crowd rewarded the prompt appearance of the "engine," and its approach to the very edge of the conflagration, were only equalled in heartiness by the interest manifested in the chief engineer's skilful disposal of the department, and his clever manipulation of the water-pail...