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...galleries testified their interest in the human mass that was collecting below, filling every point of the building, wave upon wave. The Rev. Dr. Ripley of Concord, ninety years of age, commenced the services by prayer.... "The age that was past" seemed speaking to one and all this time-worn form with oracular energy. Then the following Ode "Fair Harvard" by the Rev. S. Gilman, was performed for the first time by a select choir...
...familiar lobbyists returned to speak their time-worn pieces in the farmers' behalf. The proceedings reminded one of an 1890 melodrama, revived and played straight...
Pleasure Bound. The time-worn criticism that girls are overstressed and underdressed in the modern revue is met by the Messrs. Shubert in their latest effort. A girl-show which also brings forth Phil Baker, Jack Pearl, Shaw & Lee and Fred Hillebrand, may be accounted a balanced production. Moreover, besides all the homebred curves and complexions, there is a spick-and-Spanish dancer named Rosita Moreno...
...child, who would rather be playing ball than attending class, be faced with the serious problem of selecting his vocation or field of concentration? The proposition is sufficiently gross in his riper years. It would be well for the reformers to save the time of creating new answers to an old question by repeating this time-worn solution--raise the standards of the teachers in order to elevate the pupils...
Embroidering a now time-worn thesis, and making no attempt to reveal his personal views on the truth of its hypothesis, President Angell of Yale, in the current Harpers, suggests ways and means by which the over-population which according to many now threatens the colleges, might be avoided. It would have been more satisfactory to the majority of his readers if Mr. Angell had first made a decision as to the legitimacy of the argument and had then gone on to defend his claims: instead he has nicely side stepped any discussion of whether or not too many people...