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...Karamel (who goes to Lasell), says that one can't get along without it; she says that you can't make yourself understood sometimes, and she asks me how I'd say that I was - well, I was "mashed" unless I used slang. Why, I'd a good deal rather say "I'm perfectly gone;" that isn't slang, and it means just the same...
...performance, as is the wont whenever Mr. Thompson presents his laughable characterization of the New England farmer. Season after season he "continues to delight crowded audiences," as the show bill says, until it has become a wonder in the theatrical world, that a piece of such trifling character, or rather a conglomeration of such commonplace incidents, should meet with such uninterrupted success...
...Princetonian thinks that Princeton's failure to obtain first place last spring in base ball, and its loss of the foot ball championship in the fall, were largely due to the faulty training, or rather, over-training of nine and eleven. The Princetonian thinks that if the weather continues as it has been for the past few weeks, the nine could obtain incalculable benefit from outdoor practice at batting...
Keene appears on Monday night at the Park in "Richelieu." He has been rather severely handled by some of the Boston crities, but they all agree in predicting for him a future full of brilliant success. Keene possesses a wonderful power of facial expression; his gestures are manly and in good taste, and his voice is unsurpassed. He shows the evil effects of his Western tour in his tendency to mistake rant for passion, in his desire, to use theatrical parlance, to catch the gallery. Besides this, he wholly lacks the studied method of the Booth school, to which...
...last number of the Acta fairly bristled with sarcasm on the N. Y. Sun and abuse of its literary taste. The cause of the explosion was a severe criticism in the Sun of a certain sentimental, rather "gushy" sonnet on love and the tender passions, that appeared in a late number of the Acta...