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...more effective. Garrick's, 'Prithee, undo this button,' was remembered long after his more stately passages were forgotten. The actor who relaxes from a natural to an artificial tone loses force. To be natural on the stage is more difficult, but a grain of nature is worth a bushel of artifice. Nature may be overdone by triviality when exaltation is demanded. Like the practised orator, the actor rises and descends with the sentiment, and cannot always be in a fine frenzy...
...Hall, as a representative of this college, is worthy of all praise and imitation. Messrs. Cushing, '78, and Benham, '81, entered in the fencing contest, which Mr. Benham won. It is to be hoped sincerely that many will follow these good examples, and not hide their light under a bushel...
...something she may well be proud of; for her record is the highest of any class during the last six years at least: we investigated no farther. Of course sound, deep scholarship cannot be measured; for there are very many men who really do hide their candle under a bushel; but in the long run, supposing the number of such men to be about equal in each succeeding year, an estimate of more or less value can be formed from mere outward success. In comparing Seventy-seven's record of honors with that of Seventy-two and later classes...
ACCORDING to the Tablet the new buildings "which will soon be called Trinity College" can be seen from all parts of the country. Surely Trinity's light is not to be hidden under a bushel. The Princetonian congratulates itself that it was not Colonel Higginson, but a Princeton man, who originated the idea of intercollegiate contests. The requiem of the Rowing Association is sung by the Brunonian: "Magnanimous Harvard clung to it to the last, as she was the first to enter it. Now, dazzled by the fancy of initiating a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, wherein if the glory...