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...demand the club has consented to give an extra performance in Boston on Monday next. There can be but little question of its success. Eighty-four gave a third representation of their play, "Hernani," which was in every way successful; and judging from the way in which "Joan of Arc" was received last week in New York, there can be no doubt that it will be well received in Boston, and capable of filling three good houses...
During the recess a large number of the Hasty Pudding Club went to New York to give two performances of "Joan of Arc," in aid of the Boat Club. Most of the men went on together in a special car by the Albany railroad, enlivening the way by singing, story telling, etc. Headquarters at New York were made at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. During Monday, Tuesday, and part of Wednesday, this hotel was gay with college men; for besides the members of the company other Harvard men were there, and before they left, the Yale nine put in an appearance...
...them, ardently desire to have the Incandescent electric light adopted by the faculty, to be placed in the library and elsewhere upon its premises; if it should be decided by the faculty to use the Incandescent lamp, there are many things to be considered before a hasty adoption. The Arc light is entirely outside of the enquiry. Then comes the question, which is the best and why? The Incandescent lamps with a carbon filament are easily destroyed, and there is more or less danger of fire on account of the amount of power used, which requires the larger wire...
Went disguised as Joan of Arc...
...reach the bottom safely. Alas! "the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley," and this party ganged the same way. An unfortunate rock intervenes, and they separate, - the gallant leader measured the shortest distance between the sled and a neighboring tree; the youthful prodigy described the arc of a great circle and landed in a snow-bank; the large gentleman remained stationary, remarking, " This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I"; the last, describing a parabolical curve, an ellipse, two hyperbolas, and a conjugate diameter, landed gently in a neighboring bush...