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...Dramatic Club will give its last performance of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander," in Jordan Hall, Boston, this evening at 8.15 o'clock. All the $1.50 tickets have been sold, but seats on the floor at $1 and in the balcony at 50 cents may be obtained at Herrick's, at the Jordan Hall box-office, and from H. R. Bowser '12, Randolph 55 between 5 and 6 o'clock...
...Progress of Mrs. Alexander" which was given last Monday and Tuesday by the Dramatic Club, is a farce-comedy in three acts by Miss L. R. Stanwood, a student at Radcliffe College. It is a satire of modern life, depicting the social career of Mrs. Alexander-Smith of Breezeboro, Michigan, first at Newport and later in Boston society...
...great and notable gift to the cause of international peace has just been announced today. Mr. Carnegie has done many things for the cause of peace, but none quite so important as that which is today announced. He has provided means which will enable very real progress to be made in bringing about the results which he desires to achieve. He is entitled to the hearty praise of all good citizens here, of all patriots and lovers of their country, no matter what that country may be, in every part of the world, for what he has just done...
Before showing the stereopticon views Professor Lowell gave an introduction in which he criticised methods of instruction in the sciences. Progress in science is necessarily a generation ahead of the text-book knowledge of its day, for the minds that conceived it must first have grown up to make possible its begetting. To impart such to the generation that follows is to up it as speedily as possible in the way of making its step forward...
...organization is not unlikely to spend itself in the efforts of the first year or two; and when the impetus of novelty has gone, is liable to fall. But such fears with respect to the Dramatic Club will beset no one who last evening witnessed the performance of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander." To make a Cambridge audience laugh at anything heartily means success. To make it shout with laughter at some things that are dear to it, is a triumph; and this "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander" achieved. That the absurdities of western and of Newport society should amuse...