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...author goes on to say: "The figures go far to show that the Harvard undergraduate is not the arrant idler he is sometimes supposed to be. On the other hand, they cannot be said to lend much support to the belief that he is more studious than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago. . . . The fact seems to be that the undergraduate studies about as much now as the undergraduate of his father's time studied." The working time of the present ordinary undergraduate could be increased, but the boy does not go to college merely to study. The public...
...morning, now clad in their legitimate raiment. The two gentlemen, in the middle of the night, play at burglars, and bind the squire in his chair and rob him. Dorothy, disguised in male attire, challenges her lover to fight a duel, and, the challenge being accepted, displays arrant cowardice, thus making the denouement and inevitable explanations easy and natural...
Hollis Street Theatre-Stuart Robson in An Arrant Knave...
Hollis Street Theatre-Stuart Robson in An Arrant Knave...
Hollis Street Theatre-Stuart Robson in An Arrant Knave...