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William Winter has written a short book on Henry Irving. The preface declares it to be a record of Henry Irving's professional career upon the New York stage, and a study of his acting...
Could anything better show the old fogy conservatism of Yale than the following editorial from the Record...
...exchange which reaches our sanctum is so permeted with musty old fogyism and so little alive to the progressive tendencies of the age as the Yale Record. Yale has ever been noted for the zeal with which it clings to time honored institutions, even after they have passed their usefulness, and for the bitterness with which it resists any innovations; it is not, therefore, surprising that the college press should be tinged with the same spirit of subserviency to ancient things...
Yale sophomores, on last Sunday, made themselves notorious by breaking into a professor's room, and destroying his record books...
...enough entries are made to hold the races at all, no rider, we hope, will keep out on account of modesty with regard to the slow time he fears he will make, for several events will probably be filled with men who have never made anything like a brilliant record. Invitations have been sent to riders at Yale and Brown, and to two or three other colleges, we believe, but no definite replies have been received as yet. With a few of the best riders from other colleges, and a large representation from Harvard, the meeting would undoubtedly be interesting...