Word: seated
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Byron as Don Jose, and Mr. Carleton as Escamillo. To-morrow night, "The Bohemian Girl." Next week, the first production in this country, we believe, of Boito's "Mefistofele," of which much has been heard from London. November 22, N. C. Goodwin's Froliques in "Hobbies." Not a seat in the orchestra, and very few seats in the house, remain unsold for Sarah Bernhardt's engagement, - December 6, two weeks...
...from Portland to Bangor, I met her. The train had just stopped at a small way station; but, as I was deeply interested in "Troublesome Daughters," I paid no attention to the passengers who got in, except that I was dimly conscious of some one asking me if the seat next me was engaged. I replied "No without raising my eyes from my book. A female sat down beside me. A few minutes passed by in silence, when the woman sighed heavily. Now if there is one thing more than another which affects me, it is a woman's sighs...
...training; but these are more than over-balanced by the advantages that are derived from the practice. It gives an impetus to rowing, trains men to row a race, and affords the captain of the 'Varsity an opportunity of examining men who may become candidates for a seat in the University boat...
...many rude, unpardonable assaults of injudicious hotheads upon instructors, but that committed by the Echo, allow me to say, is an outrage on public decency. Just consider a moment: Professor Greenough is one of the most respected citizens of Cambridge, one of the most successful instructors in the highest seat of learning of this country; he is, in fine, one of the best Latin scholars of America. And such a man is accused of deliberately mixing up names and assigning marks by lottery!! And who is the accuser? An editor of the - Harvard Echo!! That such accusations against such...
...they who seek to gain knowledge. I was much pleased and astonished last week when I attended what they call a recitation. The young men, having investigated some branch of learning, enter the room prepared and eager to impart their knowledge to the professor. They seat themselves upon two chairs apiece, using one for their feet, and when they have become quiet, the professor looks sharply at each youth, for the purpose, I am told, of seeing who are honest. He then checks those who are honest, and the labor of learning begins. Great was my astonishment to hear...