Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notice that "Rustication" would be given at the Museum Saturday evening drew a large audience, among whom there were many students and friends of the author, Mr. Charles T. Dazey, '81. And it is not too much to say that their expectation was fully realized. Though the play was necessarily of a local character, yet it was entirely appreciated by the whole audience, and contained no personalities at which the most sensitive nature could take offence. The hits, though scarcely any of them new, were brought out in situations that showed no little ingenuity and dramatic talent. The actors were...
...last performances of "Pinafore" by the Ideal Opera Company, which made such a hit in it last year. To-morrow night, benefit of Thomas W. Keene in "Richard the Third." and "Slasher and Crasher." May 10, the "Prince of Palermo," an adaptation of "Boccaccio" by Suppe, the author of "Fatinitza," will be given. The cast insures an excellent interpretation of this amusing opera...
...grown bald and gray rowing on the ball-crew." The party go in the steerage to Rotterdam, visit the Rhine, the Black Forest, Switzerland, and Venice, and catch a hurried glimpse of Paris on their return. The book is written in a literary style that disarms criticism, for the author states in his preface that without certain bits of slang the representation would have lacked an essential feature. The illustrations, especially those giving views of well-known places, are good; among the others we notice several by Dore, which have appeared in other works, we believe, and give additional value...
...Niagara Index, reaches for the Crimson in the following style: "A vein of lovesick, sentimental bosh permeates the Crimson's pages. But as we have never been in love, and don't anticipate any such fatality, our censure is excusable." Poor fellow, we really pity you! The unlucky author of "Specimen Bricks" next claims his attention: "We cannot say the idiot who is responsible for the above is a brick. This article may occasionally be found embedded in his cranial protector, - that is, if there be any cranium requiring protection." It is fortunate that Harvard is so distant from Niagara...
This was first published in the poetical columns of a country newspaper, and I shall not soon forget how I laughed in my sleeve, when my aunt, a dear sympathetic creature, read it to me, with tears in her eyes. "The author of that," said she, "must have been in deep affliction." I did not destroy the illusion for her by disclosing my hand in the affair...