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...received. Undoubtedly the best dancing is done by A. E. Harris '00, who shows a lightness and activity that would do credit even to a professional. In originality of conception and execution the witches' dance and chorus are striking. The play is well staged throughout, the chorus have a splendid swing to them and most of the specialties go off with smoothness and success with the exception perhaps of the Spanish dance and the quintette. The costumes are extremely pretty and the whole effect of the piece is delightful...
...worthy of it. One such precious site is still open, --the ground just south of Sever Hall. The private houses situated there at present need not interfere seriously with the proposed building. The ample space and the rising of the ground, would show off any fine building to splendid advantage. Though in reality not far from the Quincy street site, to which so much objection has been taken, and rightly, it is for practical purposes very far removed from it. It is on one of the main routes leading from the populated district south of Massachusetts avenue to Memorial Hall...
...great ethical truth to be found in "Hamlet" is the disaster, not of wickedness, but of virtue impotent and inactive. Hamlet, although in many ways a splendid character is possessed, in the words of a French critic of note, of "a will which is strongly deemed to have the willing power, but which is powerless to furnish itself with motive for the deed." In speaking of the New Testament, John Ruskin has said what may be well applied to the death of the hero of the play, that the most soul-stirring picture drawn by the Savior is the terrible...
Strong, athletic, earnest and generous, he will be remembered by us as a splendid example of a thorough man. For the Class, Leicester Warren, Ralph H. Watson, Gordon S. Parker, W. A. M. Burden...
...bridge, the Newell crew reduced this lead to three-quarters of a length. The Weld gradually drew away again, but just before the finish the Newell spurted again until they were only half a length behind. G. Bancroft, stroke of the Weld crew, who was rowing with splendid form and judgment, waited until the Newell's spurt had spent itself and then hit up the stroke and brought his crew in an even length ahead...