Word: astraye
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...conclusively that there exists in those cities a love for old Harvard which burns as warmly as in Boston itself. The criticisms of the press were without exception of a highly complimentary and almost flattering nature, even if two of the large dailies in New York went so far astray as to print the title of the play as "The Bean, the Belle and the Bandit" and "The Bear, the Belle or the Bandit." It is customary, however, for the daily newspapers to wander so far from the truth in reporting everything connected in any way with Harvard that these...
...self-direction that the older and more earnest-minded students will have, the guidance of parents and teachers, the restrictions and suggestions of the college authorities, and the presumed readiness of college instructors to give personal advice in the matter, it may seem as though the chance of going astray were pretty well limited to the heedless, the capricious, and the wrong-headed, who can hardly be induced by any means to go right. But really there are many well meaning fellows of sixteen to twenty-four who, with the best of purposes and wishes, are not competent to judge...
...often, at this time, that a distinctly literary man takes up his pen to write a play, a play meant for popularity. This is because literature has gone far astray of the stage, and in spite of the fact that the best literature is in the highest sense dramatic. The plays which are observed today are seldom, even in a crude fashion, literary. Sound literary spirit, nevertheless, adds force to a play. Action is not the one thing needed in a good drama. Thought, and the lucid expression of this thought are also needed in it. The emphasis which...
BOSTON MUSEUM.-"Led Astray." Performance...
BOSTON MUSEUM.-"Led Astray." Performance...