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...front of my hotel a fine church, shaped like a basilica, was constantly illumined by Bengal lights, which clearly defined its silhouette without giving any distinct idea of its architecture. I floated to the harbor in front of the Doges' palace...
...have been a fine singer twenty-five years ago, but at present he is not much superior to Mario, the prince of broken-down tenors. In fact, the combination of Mme. Rudersdorff and Tamberlik, occasioned by the illness of Mme. Lucca, is something unprecedented, and forcibly suggests the idea of the "music of bygone days." It is most unfortunate that the only redeeming artist in the troupe has been unable to appear very often during this season; but the poorness of this troupe will prepare us all the better to enjoy Strakosch's troupe, which will appear at this theatre...
...being absent or tardy at a recitation. It certainly seems that this rule will decrease the number of those who are tardy, but increase those who are absent; for if a person who has perhaps not prepared his lesson finds himself late, he does not at all relish the idea of going in and running the risk of receiving thirty-two additional deductions which the instructor can impose upon him, and so naturally cuts the recitation entirely, - a result most probably different from the one intended...
afterwards prove to be. The idea, too, of free choice in one's studies has become rather a mockery by the requirements of the Tabular View, which insists upon recitations in two subjects during the same hour...
Improvements and inventions kept springing up, until, during the month of May, the gentlemen whom we have to thank for the success of the enterprise at Springfield, conceived the idea of connecting the rooms of the different members of the Company with the College bell, by a wire between it and Thayer. From that time we can be sure that the telegraph operators were the most punctual students both at chapel and recitations...