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...youthful passion. The same critic objects that the balcony is always so high. Usually, however, the balcony is so low that any lover endowed with tolerable agility could vault to the side of his mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment of "cords made like a tackled stair" - that is to say, a rope ladder - to reach it. There is truth, however, in the statement that Irving's several attempts to reach Miss Terry's hand, "which is just out of reach, and his desperate clutches and frantic gestures...
...accommodate the audience that these entertainments will undoubtedly call forth. Could they not be held in Sanders Theatre? And even if the audience should not quite fill that auditorium, the place would be found so much more agreeable and suitable to the character of the recitals given as to warrant the change. Boylston is certainly totally unfit for the purpose...
...fire was deliberately set. Two other fires have occurred in Amherst suspiciously like this in origin. The destructive fire in Cook's block, and the fire in Palmer's block, and the fire in Palmer's block each originated in the attic in such a way as to warrant suspicion that they were incendiary; the Walker Hall fire began in the same place. Just now the college feels its loss much, and vigorous attempts are being made among its alumni and friends to raise the necessary money. It has been suggested that the Western alumni take up the matter...
...pedestrian world: Rowell and Hazael have both sailed for England, Hazael jumping a warrant for his arrest procured by his trainer on account of unpaid bills. - Chicago is to have soon a six-day go-as-you-please race...
...purchase of books and the various expenses which might be incurred in carrying on the work of the school. This building should contain apartments for the director and his family, and suitable rooms for the meetings, collections, and library, and eventually, when the resources of the school should warrant it, there might be in the building rooms for the students. But in order that time might not be lost while the permanent fund was accumulating, the committee proposed to open the school at once, if possible, with a temporary and less elaborate organization, under the auspices of some...