Word: comic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that Richelieu was still living when John Harvard gave his foundation fund for the school at "New-towne." Academic gowns originated in English law, for in the fourteenth century our ancestors in the universities at Oxford and Cambridge had apparently fully as varied, and as violent tastes, as the comic supplements assure us are the first characteristic of the modern college man. So England made a law which compelled students to cover their rainbow costumes with a dark robe. Oxford obeyed for a time, but forgot the archaic regulations in more lenient times; Cambridge has always kept them religiously until...
...book" deals with the adventures of newly married Felix, who is singularly bashful and much afraid of bandits. Through a characteristically comic opera-esque chain of circumstances, he is forced to impersonate his soldier brother who is leading an expedition against the robbers. Needless to say all tangles are straightened out in the fifty seconds before the final curtain...
...book might be "English 47-ized" to great advantage. The first and third acts are decidedly weak, even for comic opera, and the situation in Act II when Felix is surrounded by wives and applicants for position is rather ineffective. The music, decidedly interesting in places, lacks the rhythm is essential to popularity. But possibly this is a virtue not a vice...
Altogether a comic opera of originally great possibilities and present occasional merit...
...same program was given in each of the nine concerts. Between the more properly musical numbers of the program solos, comic numbers and "stunt" pieces were interpolated. Each club was received heartily in each concert and the Glee Club quartet was given much high praise...