Word: acting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the day called in the catalogue Seniors' Class Day is not exclusively for them. I know that it requires some generosity to give up a desirable room to persons who may be almost strangers, but it also requires much selfishness to refuse to do so. As a last act of courtesy to the graduating class, as an effort to preserve the pleasant features of a time-honored festival, and as a means of justifying the request for a similar favor in a later year, it seems fitting that under-class men should surrender their rooms...
...Curtis as "Sir Pierre de Bourbon" was enthusiastically received; his guitar song in the last act was rewarded with a double encore. Although suffering from a severe cold, and necessarily being somewhat out of voice, his skilful acting and graceful carriage won him the merited plaudits of the fair...
...meeting of the Finance Club on Monday evening a paper on "Population" was read, and the subject was discussed. The paper on "The Provisions of the Resumption Act" was postponed until the next meeting, which will be held on January 13. It was voted that members of the Faculty should be admitted to membership on the same terms as undergraduates. A committee was appointed to confer with the Philosophical Society and the Art Club in relation to joining with them in giving a course of lectures...
...give us a little time to complete our negotiations with England; she seizes on this as a pretext for withdrawing her challenge. All the "Spirit's" correspondent can say in his accusations of cowardice and unfairness will never convince any one but his sympathizers that Harvard has acted, or desired to act, in other than an open, fair, and manly way in this or any other matter. His accusations of unfairness and faint-heartedness are, in view of Cornell's withdrawal of her challenge, particularly ill-timed...
...song in the prison scene was received with great applause. Mr. Bowen as the Princess found rather small scope for his talents, but gave the "Oxygen" song, "Go Away," with good effect, and was loudly applauded. Messrs. Urquhart and Sheafe, as the gold-spinning maid and her princely lover, acted and sang their parts to the satisfaction of the audience, Mr. Sheafe's serenade in the second act being particularly good. Mr. Cowdin's song, "Awfully Clevah," was well received. The part of the dwarf, Rumplestiltskin, was played by the by-no-means dwarfish Mr. Donaldson...