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...Corporation promised that the price of board should not be greater than it had been at the Thayer Club, the only improvements the new club could promise were a beautiful hall instead of an old, tumble-down railroad-depot, neat and trained negro-waiters instead of untidy Irish women, and the prospect of food somewhat better than at the old Commons, owing to the increase in the numbers of the club, and to the skill and experience of a professional steward. In respect of all these the club is certainly far ahead of the old railroad-depot. The waiters...
...women and roses first blushed...
...result of the preliminary examinations for women, four of the applicants received a certificate of the grade given first in the Catalogue, two others were conditioned, and a seventh failed to pass. No alternative but success or perfect failure was contemplated; but two of the applicants did so well that it seemed unfair to let all their work go for nothing, and they can obtain the certificate by passing, next year, those examinations in which they failed. Two or three of the ladies who succeeded will probably try for further honors next year. There is a question whether the names...
Almost the same programme was given at both places. The farce was "The Two Puddifoots," the characters of the men being taken by Messrs. Botume, Joy, and McMartin; those of the women by Messrs. Burnham, Thomsen, and Meeks. Then followed a violoncello solo by Mr. Finck; and the entertainment concluded with the four-act burlesque "William Tell." In the burlesque the principal characters were taken by Messrs. Morris, Botume, Eldridge, McMartin, Peirce, A. A. Wheeler, and Osgood. The singing was the subject of much remark and praise, and the college songs as rendered both by the principal actors...
...latitude of development which Manfred does not. In "Manfred" there is no woman. "Sardanapalus," on the contrary, has one of the fairest types of Byronic poetry. Here his true spirit shows itself; that warm, sunny, voluptuous South, mingled with the fidelity and truthfulness of the North. Byron's women are his guardian angels; and, whether good or bad, they leave an impression of beauty and passion which characterizes them alone. Manfred only speaks to Astarte. Sardanapalus both speaks to Myrrha and is answered with that passionate devotion which Manfred seeks for in vain...