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This play, "a tragedy of the ludicrous," as Mr. MacKaye calls it, consists of four acts, the first of which is laid in a blacksmith shop. A small town in Massachusetts is the scene of the play, and the time the latter part of the seventeenth century...
...plains and mountains a chance to train hand and brain at the same time, while earning their way by work in the shops or on the farm. All of the 100 students in the school do manual work for five hours each day, the boys in the blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, or on the farm; the girls in the laundry, kitchen, or dairy. Last year the work of the students made the institute almost self-supporting. Like the George Junior Republic, after which it is modelled, it is a self-governing community, and only twice in its history...
...lately received from the estate of D. H. Storer M.D. '25, through Miss H. M. Storer, a collection of 245 copper coins. Among the rarities in this collection are a fine specimen of Swedish plate money and a "Granby copper." The Granby coppers were struck by an ingenious blacksmith in Granby, Conn., in 1737, and, being made of unalloyed copper, quickly became worn, and are therefore now of the greatest rarity...
...illness of Mr. Aldrich. The principal address of the evening was written by Mr. W. D. Howells h.'67, but on account of Mr. Howell's illness, it was read by Professor Bliss Perry. In addition to the addresses of the evening a short cantata entitled "The Village Blacksmith" was rendered by an orchestra and chorus composed of pupils in the Cambridge public schools...
...Professor Bliss Perry of the department of English. For the same reason Mr. T. B. Aldrich will not be present, but his poem will be rendered by Mr. C. T. Copeland '82 of the English department. A special chorus from the public schools will sing the cantata, "The Village Blacksmith...