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...Gates, '35; Charles Gilman Smith, '47; Francis P. Fischer, Frederick P. Fischer, '48; Geerge F. Harding, Edward L. Holmes, '49; Louis Shissler, '54; Edwin H. Abbott, William Parsons, '55; John V. Cowling, '57; C. Gilbert Wheeler, '58; William Eliot Furness, Joseph Shippen, '60; Edward D. Hosmer, '65; Philon C. Whidden, '66; Warner Vespasian, Holdridge O. Collins, George A. Follansbee, David N. Utter '67; Moses J. Wentworth, '68; George H. Ball, Charles L. Capen, Gardner G. Willard, Augustus E. Wilson, Joseph L. Silsbee, James P. Kelly, '69; James B. Galloway, Henry A. Gardner, '70; Walter C. Larned, '71; Henry B. Stone...
Although it may seem a sacrilege to many that Gilbert has taken the material for his new comic opera Libretto from Tennyson's poem "The Princess," yet it can scarcely be wondered at in this busy age, when even Shakspere cannot escape being travestied by popular playwrights. Early in his literary career Gilbert wrote a burlesque of the Princess for one of the leading London theatres, and it is merely this burlesque, remodeled and polished up, that has achieved a success in London, and that comes before a Boston audience on Monday evening next, under the name of "Princess...
...four wanderers dress themselves up as "girl graduates" and in this way gain admittance within the sacred precinct. Once inside they attempt to influence the Princess, but are discovered and cast from the gates in disgrace. This second act is full of clever satire and bright dialogue, showing Gilbert at his best, and the music also is brisk and catching. Burning with rage and shame King Hildebrand sizes upon Gama, the Princess' father, and declares war against the "girl graduates." The learned maids, true to their theory, array themselves in armor, and aided by Arac and his brethren,-relations...
...name of Mr. Frank Gilbert Atwood, '78, has been a familiar by-word to every Harvard man since he was in college. This well deserved notoriety is due to the clever series of illustrations which have come from his pencil, beginning with his work in the Lampoon, which will always be popular. Crude in their style and faulty in their execution and showing a hand still untrained, these sketches are full of life and meaning. Every little line of the face conveys some definite idea and is as expressive as the maturer production of later years, showing an in-born...
...hung with green stuffs on that day, probably to represent the wilderness in which St. John preached. At one end of the court stands the Monument Tower, where all the college archives are kept, and next to it the Founder's Tower, lately restored and furnished throughout by Sir Gilbert Scott, the mist renowned restorator in England. To the right of these towers stands the chapel, a beautiful specimen of architecture, with its fine entrance porch covered with ivy. The interior, although fine, is not striking; the elaborately carved screen dividing it into two parts spoiling the symmetry...