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...never shone two days alike...
...which each individual game shall take place was left till some future time. The custom of playing a series of games seems almost entirely to have superseded the single game of former years, and it is, I think, the only true way of testing the respective merits of the two Nines. Leaving out of the question the advantage gained by the club on whose grounds the single game is played, there are many benefits which accrue to each college from a series. By this plan, the friends of each college are sure to see one of the games played...
...capital of Spain; Geneva was transferred to Italy. The Rhine was said to flow into the Atlantic, the Danube into the Baltic. An example comes to our mind of a candidate for admission to Harvard College giving the width of the Amazon River at its mouth as about two miles, and the length of the Mississippi as ten thousand miles; another confidently affirmed Maine to be a coffee-growing State. We recently saw a paper directed to the Reading-room "Herveford College...
...Overland Route has been having a good run at this theatre for the last week or two. The comedy is one of Taylor's, and is, on that account, very attractive; but the "comic force" seems, to us at least, to lose its intensity and to flag in interest in some places. That a young wife, crossing the ocean alone, may make time pass pleasantly by flirting with one or two elderly gentlemen, or that some one gentleman may be tired of his wife, is not unlikely; but when all the passengers seem to have a touch of some kind...
...illness and the consequent changing of parts. Poor as it was, it hardly needs an apology, for it served as a dark background upon which Madame Janauschek's superb acting stood out with a vivid contrast. The previous evenings of the week she appeared with striking effect in the two characters of Lady Dedlock and Hortense...