Word: athenaeum
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ATHENAEUM.THE Everett Athenaeum supper being at Parker's, of course, warranted the excellence of what to some is not the least enjoyable part of the last meetings of our Sophomore societies. As was remarked by the speakers of the evening, it was but fit that, after a year's toil in the hardest working literary society in College, they should meet the last time convivially...
...Williams Athenaeum has a rather amusing satirical article on the Shakspere-Bacon controversy, in which it maintains that the two formed a literary partnership, on the Erckmann-Chatrian plan, and that Bacon's contempt for the drama led him to withhold his name. The same paper tells us that the old custom of smoking the class pipe is to be abolished...
PROFESSOR (endeavoring to give a student some idea of conditional sentences). "Suppose I should say, 'If I had a million dollars, I would endow the college with half of it'; what would you infer?" STUDENT (readily). "I should infer that you were a generous man." Professorial disgust. - Williams Athenaeum...
...dramatic entertainment given by the Everett Athenaeum at the Boston Union Hall on the evening of May 13 was a decided success in every way. The programme was judiciously made up of interesting farces, all of which were put on the stage in a very creditable manner. In "Thirty Minutes for Refreshments," which was the opening farce, the leading parts were admirably taken. As "John Dumley" Mr. Strobel was excellent, and his careful rendering and excellent acting were noticeable. The character "Clarence Fitts," colored servant, was taken by Mr. Millett, who was fully up to the standard in his impersonation...
...Everett Athenaeum has secured the rooms recently occupied by the Signet, and previously by the Phi gamma. A commodious stage is being erected in the place formerly occupied by the banquet-hall. The rooms will probably not be ready for the society before the regular meeting of next week...