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...With the ghost of "Bloody Monday" night hovering just ahead of us, it behoves us to speak of some quaint old rites which in years gone by used to take place on this first Monday of the college year, and which marked a lower stage in the development of our mental and moral faculties; for we will not venture to suppose that the roots from which these ancient customs grew are still lying hidden in the college soil. Long ago, then, as we said, it used to be customary for the new-fledged sophomores to serve notices upon the budding...
...principal features of the Christmas number of Harpers Weekly are "A Christmas Fantasy" drawn by F. S. Church, and a ghost story written by Julian Hawthorne...
...declamatory in his delivery, and lacked naturalness in his action. Mr. Richardson as Casca took the opportunity in interrupting Cassius and Brutus to deliver one of the most peculiarly theatrical outbursts of the evening. He mouthed his words very badly, and spoke in a sepulchral tone worthy of the ghost of Caesar. While the acting of Mr. Jones as Brutus showed some lack of study, the purity of his enunciation was in marked contrast with the indistinct utterance of many of the other actors. The scene between Brutus and Portia afforded some opportunity for delicacy of treatment, but Mr. Stevens...
...made ready for high thoughts. For the office of the Gothic drama is not to give us merely the chiseled image of some heroic man agitated by one mighty passion, but rather to display the forces that are struggling in all men; to overawe us with the ghost of our own past and our own future, so that we may truly say: The world is passing in review...
Boating at Princeton seems to have fulfilled the prophecy, and to have died a natural death, Though last year it refused to be strangled, it has now, taking one consideration with another, probably made up its mind that the best thing to do is to gracefully yield up the ghost. The college, though fully appreciating the strenuous exertions of last year's crew, are quite willing to cease contesting where we are bound always to be the "tail-piece."-[Princetonian...