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...Ralph Edson Tibbetts...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 spoke in the Common Room of Conant Hall last evening under the auspices of the Graduates Club on "Reminiscences of Literary Men," Colonel Higginson talked mainly of literary men he had met in his youth, and told numerous anecdotes about James. Russell Lowell '38, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Mr. Higginson and Mr. Lowell became fast friends when children. They were in the habit of going to various lectures together, and while at one of these Mr. Higginson became acquainted with Emerson...
...Graduates' Club, in the Common Room of Conant Hall, on "Some Reminiscences of Literary Men." Colonel Higginson is well fitted to speak on this subject, as he has been intimately connected with some of the best known American men of letters, among whom the most prominent are Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Amos Bronson Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier h.'60, Wait Whitman, Wendell Phillips '31, Charles Sumner '30, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry W. Longfellow h.'59, and James Russell Lowell...
...play opens with a prologue, but the speaker is interrupted by a citizen, who leaps onto the stage and demands that the actors introduce a citizen into the cast. The citizen's wife, who has joined him, suggests that Ralph, the apprentice, take the part. While Ralph is dressing, the first act, including a rather conventional love-story between Jasper Merrythought and Luce Venturewell is acted. In the second act, Ralph appears dressed as the Knight of the Burning Pestle, and, at the frequent interruptions of the citizen, goes through many stirring adventures, in all of which he comes...
...wife. The broadly humorous songs of Merrythought the old man, by W. J. McCormick '07, were exceedingly well received; but the most amusing feature of the performance was the excellent buffoonery of the mine characters, especially of C. W. Burton '08 and F. S. Howe '08, the squires to Ralph...