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The Overland Route has been having a good run at this theatre for the last week or two. The comedy is one of Taylor's, and is, on that account, very attractive; but the "comic force" seems, to us at least, to lose its intensity and to flag in interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

However pleasing it may be to some of us to carry the reputation of being jolly dogs, etc., yet the above picture symbolizes the characteristics of a very small set of each class, - a set which grows smaller as the class grows older. The majority of students do not deserve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE REPUTATION. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

AMONG the most widely known and conspicuous traits in the character of the late lamented Prince of Erie, was his inordinate passion for making a display. He builds an opera-house, and runs it at a great loss, for the sole purpose of making his name prominent before the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

This man is held up to us as one influenced to a remarkable extent by the famoe sacra fames. Notoriety he thirsted for, and notoriety he certainly gained. Without doubt, he is the shining example of that trait so graphically expressed in the vulgate by the term "cutting a dash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

Look at that "dig," whom you have known, ever since you entered college, as the most retiring, modest fellow imaginable. Yet he goes away into some country place, and, as he gets out of his old ruts and among people where his superiority is in some respects tacitly acknowledged, you...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »