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...opinion of the instructor that two years can be spent on Shakspeare with profit, and the remark was made in a Boston paper this summer, that it was a sign of the increasing attention paid to English literature at Harvard that Shakspeare could be studied for two years in succession...
Until last summer I had failed to find my ideal; but, while travelling 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...
...turned her large lustrous eyes upon me and spoke: "Well, of all the living fools, you be the biggest. You're right about my not knowing nothing about lawn tennis and such like, and I guess father could kinder take you to board for the summer at six dollars a week, money paid every Saturday, but all them other things you said hain't no more sense to 'em than apple-parings. Think I'd have you carrying my water-pail round and pestering me all day 'pouring sweet poetry in my eye'? I think I see myself...
...although a glance at Jarvis will easily satisfy one that their ground is a perfectly valid one, still we cannot but feel that the existence of such an objection is, or ought to be, quite unnecessary. The employing of a man to take care of the track during the summer months would result in affording opportunity to our athletes to begin training as soon as the term opens, and would entirely do away with the possibility of such an unfortunate quandary in the future as at present exists; while the expense, we should think, could not fail of being much...
...fairy," and of the ballet, are equally remarkable. On Monday, 18th, "Two Nights in Rome," with Maud Granger as the heroine, and a good support. Robson and Crane are announced for the 25th. This theatre has been made perhaps the most attractive in Boston by the alterations during the summer...