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...lighten the general effect are added to advantage. . . . The Orient (Bowdoin), Dartmouth, Athenoeum (Williams), Brunonian, and Student (Amherst) have much in common, each being the only representative of its college, and each being industrious in the accumulation of locals. We may be pardoned for preferring the Student above the rest, mainly for its manly and sensible editorials, its generally courteous tone, and the really witty articles that appear from time to time. Were General Garfield not to be our next President, the Athenoeum might be more entertaining reading. Of the Vassar Miscellany we have little to say, because there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P. M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Miss Genevieve Ward, perhaps the best American actress, can only be seen for the rest of this week, in her excellent impersonation of Stephanie in "Forget-Me-Not." Next week, Agnes Booth and James O'Neil appear in the "Celebrated Case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRES. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...that of M-ses. Algernon Charles Sw-nb-rne and G-rge Fr-ncis Tr-in chatted merrily away, kept warm, perhaps, by their own heated imaginations. The President of a certain famous institution of learning sat by himself in one corner of the building, in order that the rest of the assembly might attempt to keep warm; and every one looked that way whenever this great functionary raised his eyes, and, turning up their coat-collars, remarked to one another that the weather was frigid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...would agree to wipe out B-rt-l- The Club were disposed to resent this speech; but a very learned man, H-xley by name, interposed, saying that the discussion would amuse Joseph and keep him out of mischief, and that if B-rt-l could stand it the rest of them could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

BOSTON THEATRE. - 7.45 P. M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. Denman Thompson will appear in "Joshua Whitcomb" for the rest of the week. On Monday, Mary Anderson begins her engagement, appearing as the Countess in Sheridan Knowles's "Love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRES. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »