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...wish to repeat the request made by the class-day committee in another column. The full enjoyment of the exercises depends largely upon the character of the audience. Strangers often get in as best they can to witness the exercises of the gala day of the year, and some of the poorer students frequently offer their tickets for sale at such public places that very undesirable persons are enabled to obtain admission. This year, therefore, the present committee are taking active measures to make the day as much of a college day as possible, and so they appeal...
...gala revival of popular comedies will be the attraction at the Museum for probably some time. The coming week the audience will be served with "The Silver Spoon," with Mr. Warren in his excellent personation of Jefferson Scattering Batkins...
Next week will be a gala one at the Globe, as there will be a double bill during the entire week. Every afternoon little Corinne, who owes the sincerest thanks to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for gratuitous advertising, will present the charming operetta "Magic Slipper," supported by a company of adults. In the evenings, the New York Park Theatre Company will produce Mr. G. B. Simm's successful comedy "Mother...
...tiresome. A week of festivity, too, would probably attract to Cambridge the friends and relatives of students who reside at a distance. People who do not care to undertake a journey for the excited rush of a single overcrowded day would very probably like to be present throughout a gala week. I wish that this matter might be discussed...
...expense of Class Day on the class itself. Unquestionably the immediate benefit accrues to the graduating class and their friends, but indirectly the College gains, for it is brought favorably before the public, and the love for Harvard with old college-men is fostered by the maintenance of the gala-days of their Alma Mater, Class Day and Commencement. The Yard is always cleaned for Class Day, - perhaps the Class will appreciate its appearance the more if they know it is put in order with their money, - the buildings are refurbished, the entries "swept and garnished," the windows look abnormally...