Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE. - American Opera Co. in "Orpheus and Eurydice...
...group together everything that is positively established as to John Harvard," makes it perhaps the most distinctly valuable contribution that has yet appeared in the Monthly. It is certainly this to Harvard readers. The other of the two articles, "Unimaginary Conversation," has special reference to literary work in American colleges, and is a skilful piece of satire and common sense. There is much truth in the gloomy remarks about college poetry. As an imitation of Landor, this paper is by no means unsuccessful. The reader has some curiosity to know who "Margites Chitterly...
BOSTON THEATRE. - American Opera Co. in Lakme...
BOSTON THEATRE. - American Opera Co. in "Lohengrin...
...very long ago college students received no official encouragement to enter into researches concerning theatrical matters. But things have changed somewhat. Mr. Bronson Howard, the leading American dramatist, has been telling the Harvard boys how to write plays, and Mr. Henry Irving is expected soon to tell the Oxford boys how to act them, while the Princeton boys have a prosperous dramatic club of their own, which gives public performances with great eclat. - Harpers Weekly...