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...been definitely decided that there will be no more class baseball this year. The idea of a triple league between the three upper classes has been given up owing to its impractibility. The players of the three upper class nines do not think it worth while to give their time and trouble to come out and play in such a league for even if there were such a series, with the freshmen debarred from playing, there could be no real class champions...
...GENTLEMEN AND MR. PRESIDENT: I do not know whether you are aware of the fact, but tonight is an excellent example, that an actor enjoys nothing so much as a good round of applause. First, it shows that I am welcome, and secondly, it gives me a chance to think what I shall say next. I do not mean to say that I have come to address you unprepared, nor am I exactly like Mr. Lowell, who said he got off the best after dinner speeches he ever made, coming home...
...other day an old gentleman asked me if I did not think the starring system most pernicious, I replied that when I was a stock actor I looked upon every star as a tyrant, and when I became a star I looked upon every stock actor as a conspirator. Shakespeare invented the starring system. Hamlet, Shylock, Macbeth, Coriolanus are all stars. These plays also were written to illustrate human passions; Othello, jealousy; Macbeth, fate; Coriolanus, the autocrat; Merchant of Venice, revenge...
...think it has. The public is now much larger than it used to be, and requires a greater variety. The stock companies used to play many different parts, even opera. Now there are special companies for each, and because they devote more time to them they do them better. Moreover, the best actors in stock companies usually become stars as soon as they achieve their reputation. There is little sense in finding fault and wishing to go back to the old stock companies...
...seat of learning, that she has been victorious in the only intellectual contests of the time; but the concentration of interest in the public debates tends to delay the recognition of the scholarly spirit which is cultivated in private by a steadily increasing body of students. People think that the undergraduate interest in debate is largely, if not wholly, stimulated by the prospect of intercollegiate contests; that it is effect rather than cause. They forget to regard it as but one instance of the general quickening of intellectual life in the college, and accordingly deny to the college due credit...