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QUERY. - Why on Kantian principles is it impossible that a man should be unable to graduate...
...vocal line, who can think of the stirring chorus, "Gloria all' Egitto e ad Iside!" without remembering that the volume was increased by Undergraduate lungs? But what a fall of pride! Do we not see one of our number among the Ethiopian prisoners forcibly suggesting the end man at the negro minstrels? And then the bearers of "those idols," - a cow minus a horn, a statue minus a limb, - most imposing, no doubt, from the audience...
...days of the Inquisition. But soon hammering calls us up stairs again; they are just finishing the tomb. The carpenter is nailing together the parts of the statue of Isis and calling for the missing head, while above him the moon is getting into the right position. The property-man rushes around supplying the necessary beards and wigs; the caller comes down stairs, ringing the bell before each dressing-room, and there at the right of the stage stands the manager, with all his machinery within reach and the whole theatre under his thumb, ready to give the signal...
...interesting side of a man's experience as super is the insight he gets into the characteristics of the prominent artists. So amusing to hear Nillson, fresh from the Tower scene, ask in our prosaic English for some pins for her sash. Another, too, lamenting in heart-rending tones the fate of Radames, and then with her back to the audience pouting at us in the wings in regular school-girl fashion, because she had soiled her hands on the dusty scenery. And then the rage of a Signor who was driven from the stage to give room...
...Man, the hermit, smiled, till Woman sighed...