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...prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request to the corporation, leading to the appointment of a new professor to the chair of Rhetoric which has been vacant for ten years. The students show their interest, not only by a great increase in the number who take active part in the various...
...latest word received from President Eliot was from Genoa. In a previous letter he mentioned having travelled up the Nile as far as the second cataract. It is not yet definitely known when he expects to return...
...audience of the Elizabethan theatre was very interesting. The fops and gallants came to show themselves off rather than to enjoy the play. They set the latest fashions. Some reclined on the stage, while others sat in the pit and boxes. The coming production of "The Silent Woman" will give an excellent idea of the appearance of the pit and stage of an Elizabethan theatre...
...tfON Monday evening, February 11, Mr. Nat C. Goodwin will present at the Hollis Street Theatre, his latest and greatest success, "David Garrick," by T. W. Robertson. The story is well told, and the work of Goodwin is delightful. His dry, sarcastic remarks on the father's reflections upon players in the first act; his meeting with Ada at her father's house, his simulation of intoxication, his forgetfulness for the moment when she appeals to the better nature, thrills even his stupid hearers with the genius of his art, and his heart-breaking demand upon the father...
...excellent company, will begin his annual Boston engagement at the Tremont next week, presenting, for the first time in this city, the funniest of all comic operas - "Dr. Syntax." DeWolf Hopper will essay the role of a good-natured, up-to-date pedagogue. The locale of this, the latest and greatest of the comedian's light comic operatic successes, is laid in a charming country village in New England. The jovial "Dr. Syntax" esteems it his duty to make everybody happy, and, luckily for his protegees, his opportunities to carry out this benevolent plan are many, for the young lady...