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...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...
...sailing; and on another, a storm threatening, our prudent skipper would not put to sea. Space fails me to relate how, balked in all our plans of sport, the party at length resorted to the Harvard amusement of billiards and pool, and, returning through the town to their hotel, regaled the Plymouthites with "Maid of Athens" and "Mulligan Guards," and were surrounded by a strong posse of police impressed for the service (the permanent force is one watchman), who caused them to desist from their philanthropic efforts to cheer the melancholy inhabitants. Nor can I relate how, in the forlorn...
...representatives of five colleges met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, April 3, to make definite arrangements for the intercollegiate contest. The colleges represented were Williams, Princeton, University of New York, Wesleyan, and Columbia. It was decided that the first contest should take place January 7, 1875, in the Academy of Music, in New York City. There will be contests in oratory and essay-writing. The following judges were appointed: Oratory, - Whitelaw Reid, William Cullen Bryant, and Dr. Chapin. Essays, - T. W. Higginson, James T. Fields, and Richard Grant White. Letters of encouragement were read from President McCosh...
Three plump and tender Freshmen, who chanced to be loitering in the hotel, were seized, roasted, served with celery and tomato-catsup, and eaten with great relish by the brutal Sophomores...
...first place, Barker's hotel was set on fire and burnt to ashes, the Sophomoric ruffians howling with demoniacal glee as each massive wall of the noble structure tottered, crumbled, and fell before the insatiate rage and devouring ferocity of the exultant fire-fiend...