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...seems to have set all Boston and its suburbs in a state of dangerous curiosity. It is a well-known physiological fact that many a man, and more women, have been made the victims of hypochondria, of forgetfulness regarding their debts, of illusions of the most aggravating and exciting sort, by curiosity. Now, it may be almost reprehensible in Mr. William Collier, and those who aid and abet him in this query, "Who is Jones?" Intellects have been shattered by questions of this sort and endeavors at their solution. The sphinx herself is much shattered after some...
...something which can very fairly be called an operetta, an operette in the Offenbach vein. And it hardly need be said that, compared with what burlesque has grown to in our day, anything approaching Offenbach operabouffe has a strong smack of the "legitimate." We rather wonder that this sort of thing has not occurred to the Pudding before; for what could be more appropriate? An old and much-honored club of university undergraduates would seem almost predestined to this sort of wild caricature of the classic in its theatrical doings; the whole genre has an academic flavor which should have...
...librettist has turned out a book very much on the old Meihac & Halevy lines, taking mythological dramatis personae and the gist of an old myth, and burlesquing the whole by the introduction of all sorts of modern matter. And in this he has shown a very keen eye for caricature. Take, for instance, his fusion of the Greek Pluto with the modern Devil, of Hades with Hell, and then further burlesquing the composite by making Hell a sort of modern hotel, into which no sinless person can obtain admission; this is excellent burlesque. His working-out of this comic donnee...
...George Birkbeck Hill's interesting and valuable comments on Harvard life, he greatly regrets the lack here of any Hall or Common Rooms to help bridge the distance between teachers and pupils, and to be in some sort the center of the social life of the University. With such Common Rooms, and the hospitable gatherings in them, he had been familiar at Oxford, and so doubtless felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately...
Plans for a University infirmary have been under consideration for some time but a lack of available funds has made it impossible as yet to accomplish much that is definite in that direction. However, as the need is so great, it is intended to formulate some sort of a scheme for meeting the present wants, which can be set definitely before the University in the near future...