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...looked upon with aversion by the teachers of Woodward, Hughes and other preparatory schools, obnoxious to a large number of the patrons of the school, his hold on the rectorship is certainly feeble. Like Tantalus, he reached out after fruit which has constantly cluded his grasp. Like the Samian king, he left a cup untasted to pursue game he failed to secure, and has verified the proverb, 'There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.'" The return of the editors of the Academica is hailed with delight by the whole college...
...divine Oscar will soon be wafted to Boston, and then we shall see whether the cultured and literary inhabitants of "Modern Athens" burn and are utterly consumed with the fire of precious and supreme transcendentally, or in cold and unappreciative apathy turn their backs upon the king of aesthetes and abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform...
BOSTON THEATRE. - John McCullough, as "King Lear...
...King's "Final Issue" of the Register is still meeting with favorable comment, and a large sale. "Our French Visitors," from the same publisher, has also met with great success...
...will hold the boards of the Boston for another week, and the immense houses which he has attracted certainly give some claim to his title of "America's favorite actor." On Monday and Thursday he will appear in "The Gladiator;" Tuesday, "Othello;" Wednesday, "Brutus;" Friday (benefit of the actor), "King Lear;" Saturday matinee, "Ingomar;" Saturday evening, "Jack Cade." This will be an opportunity, seldom afforded, of seeing the tragedian in almost his entire repertory...