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...moan, followed by applause at the end of a scene of murder, 12 1/2f; ordinary laughter, 5f; bursts of laughter, 10f; exclamations - "Oh, how droll!" etc., 15f; superlative exclamations - "It is simply magnificent!" "It is unequalled!" 20f. The sifflet a succes, or "the friendly hiss," is not, we learn, supplied under 20f. The item which strikes our fancy most is the "moan followed by applause at the end" of a murder scene, for which the groanist gets 10s. 5d. "a go." The profession of actor is often a lucrative one; of a playwright who hits the popular taste, a brilliantly...
...much sensation by reading his lines in English as in Greek, and, moreover, would not give any ground for the charge of affectation. Since this manner of conglomerating languages seems to have become so popular on the American stage, we shall not be in the least surprised to learn that Boucicault will soon, as Conn in the "Shaughraun," speak in Celtic while supported by an English-speaking company...
...work, but by a few weeks, or perhaps days, of hard "grinding" for examinations. The mind, unaccostomed to such work, naturally gives way under the strain of so much knowledge forced into it in such a short time, and forgets usually in as few days as were required to learn it. One can perform ten hours work each day with the brain as readily as with the muscles of the body, provided it is done regularly, and commenced from a small beginning...
...institution rejoicing in the name "college" has been heard from. We refer to a college bearing the romantic name of Tufts, which, we learn, is situated somewhere in the outskirts of Boston. In our edition of last Tuesday we referred to a small band of men, presumably students, who were in the habit of amusing the public every week by walking down Washington street wearing the mortar-board, an English custom aped by some of our smaller American colleges, presumably for the purpose of giving them a somewhat "Englishy" look. A Tufts correspondent of the Boston Post, yesterday, gave...
...present a communication this morning from "Freshman," criticising our words of commendation for '85 on account of its "quietness." Our correspondent will learn, before he has left the classic shades of Harvard, that attending the theatre in a body, and going through with the actions that have been performed there by the freshman classes of the past few years, is not a sign of manliness; and, refraining from such amusements, by no means proves that a class is composed of "dear, gentle, studious, good little boys," to quote from our correspondent. If '85 is desirous of showing herself a manly...