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...many places of her farces written specially for amateurs. The dramatically convenient will also figures in this farce. The professor of psychology in a small college has just died leaving a property of some $50,000 to this friend Professor Hilltop provided he can successfully meet a psychological test intended to prove the deceased professor right in the many warm discussions he and his friend have had on the particular subject. The farcical idea Miss Rice works out with much resource and humor...
...duel and, thinking that he is about to die, commands Goodlack to go back to England and, if he finds Bess still faithful, to give her a legacy of 500 pounds a year. Goodlack, thinking Spencer dead, leaves Fayal for England. Spencer, however, is still alive and resolves to test the faithfulness of both Bess and Goodlack. He himself sets sail in an English merchantman homeward bound...
Goodlack arrives at Foy and resolves to test Bess, hoping she may prove false and that he may keep the legacy. But finding his efforts futile, he finally tells Bess of the money. Spencer returning from Fayal, has been captured by a Spanish captain. Bess, in the meanwhile, has decided to set sail for Fayal and as captain of the ship "Negro," learns that the Spaniards have desecrated the supposed Spencer's body. The "Negro" gives fight to a Spanish vessel and captures it. When Spencer is brought before her she thinks him a ghost, and he does not recognize...
...Gymnasium tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Entries must be left in the wrestling room at the Gymnasium before 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and should contain the name, class and weight of the contestant. All men who intend to compete and who have not taken a strength test since January 1 must take one this afternoon between 2 and 4 o'clock...
...enrolled in English 2 came a great shock through Saturday's communication. We were dismayed to learn, from "A Senior" that Shakspere was the author of so many "microscopic and insignificant phrases," that the training of our memories is of mere "incidental" importance, and that English 2 did not test our culture. Ah, this last was "the most unkindest...