Word: performance
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The wonderful tricks of Hermann can be seen to-night and to-morrow only. He offers many new and striking evidences of his skill as a prestidigitateur. The Onofri Brothers and the Lorellas perform some difficult gymnastic feats, besides, and Valvose's ventriloquism is worth hearing. Nov. 1, Corinne Opera Company...
...youths. Their principal god is called Mil Wah Kee; by some, Bir. There are two great shrines of this god in the neighborhood, and the high priests at each are named Adahm and Kahrll respectively. The worship of this god is by libations. The youths are very careful to perform their duties to him at least once every day. As I saw two youths at the shrine, I conjecture that this is the usual form of the ceremonies: One of them calls out and addresses the high priest thus: "To Mil Wah Kee, Adahm!" Then the high priest pours...
...Harvard. We must disagree with the writer, however, when he blames the instructors. Both those gentlemen are extremely painstaking and diligent in their efforts to raise the standard of elocution at Harvard. The trouble arises not from their lack of effort, but from the impossibility for two men to perform the work which is put upon them. As the writer says, those who do not engage their time very early in the term are even deprived of the benefit of fifteen minutes' instruction a week. Of course no very great progress can be made in such limited time, even with...
...mental collapse that effectually prevents any work for some time. Cramming, in the case of a majority of students, is not a hurried effort to get a superficial knowledge of the half-year's work in a day or two, but merely a review of work which has been performed from day to day. Such a review few will attempt to condemn. It is all very well to say that we should do our reviewing in the Christmas vacation or during the year, but it is impossible to perform faithfully regular work and review past work at once...
...witnessed the erection of Sever Hall and the new Gymnasium, and the establishment of a Professorship of Hygiene. The College is still burdened by the marking system, and is likely to be until the whole system of American instruction is reformed, and the university is no longer compelled to perform part of the functions of the preparatory schools; but much required work has been abolished, and the new method of examining candidates or admission is an important step in the right direction. The new system of conferring degrees, though somewhat elaborate, tends to encourage sound scholarship. Many valuable additions have...