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...class of '89 might have seemed simply a flocking of like-feathered birds but for a letter written last week by Mr. Depew to his new brethren on the occasion of their annual dinner in Manhattan. This letter gave the impression that '89 had had a secondary motive, akin to the kindly one that actuates hospitable neighbors who invite a lonely widower to share their Thanksgiving turkey...
...reviewer has a feeling akin to caddishness when he witnesses a play, a difficult play, upon which has been spent a deal of extra worry, time, and pains, and can not find it in his heart to give it the praise such an expenditure of talent should warrant. Such is the case with the revival of the play in which Joseph Jefferson, contemporary of Booth, originally made the hit of his lifetime. The production of "Rip Van Winkle" at the New Repertory Theatre is done with considerable artistry, elaborate and delightful stage effects, excellent music, and harmony in every detail...
...Lament went to Italy "for nothing more than a vacation," but bankers' "vacations" have come to possess a special and technical significance-something akin to the sudden "illness" of diplomats. Bankers leave Manhattan loaded with golf-clubs, but closely followed by earnest-faced secretaries even more heavily loaded with brief cases and portfolios...
Despite the passing of Professor Baker and the 47 Workshop, there has come about at Harvard something akin to a dramatic Renaissance. A Theatregoers' Club has been successfully organized, the Dramatic Club has decided to produce only undergraduate plays, and now a new movement is stirring in the minds of those who are deeply interested in the theatre. This is the desire for a new course, one in the history of stage design and theatrical production...
...little missive in this morning's mail from the Cornell Daily Sun betokens a feeling among its editors almost akin to the yearnings of mother love. They so wanted to have a little pet all their very own. What must have been their anguish then when little "Touchdown" took his last romp with the Big Red Team up and down the campus, or wherever they did romp...