Word: coulds
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...which took place in Horticultural Hall, April 17, 18, and 19; but we are unwilling to allow such excellent performances to pass without more than casual mention. The opening play on Friday night was "The Laughing Hyena, "in which the characters could not have been more suitably cast. Messrs. Clark, Bowditch, Shaw, and Dumaresq were all that could be desired in their several parts. Then followed the somewhat ancient, but still interesting "Naiad Queen." Several new songs were introduced, which were very acceptably rendered by Mr. Szemelenyi and Mr. Devens. The "hit" of the evening, however, was made...
...fabricated by an English mechanician. This manufactured man did credit to the author of his being, lacking only a soul, A sort of feeling the creature had in its leathern breast; and this feeling, Heine maliciously observes, was not essentially different from the ordinary feelings of an Englishman. It could even communicate its sensations in articulate sounds, and the very rattle of its inside rollers, toothed wheels, and springs, as heard when it talked, imparted to its language a genuine English accent. Again, in one of his short stories, he describes English pronunciation and language as follows: "They take...
...some - what mythical personages forthwith entered upon an extended tour in company. For months their popularity continued undiminished. The hit made by this combination was immense. The Fiend and the Phoenix were quoted far and wide. Even after the immediate appropriateness of their use was past, the newspaper men could n't give them up. It is but recently that a leading Boston daily ascribed a very modest and unpretentious conflagration to that same old demon, - the Fire-Fiend...
...need it nearly as much as at a later period. The short suspension of recitations at Thanksgiving, and the Christmas vacation, are, at least by the undergraduate mind, considered as customs productive of much good. Were it possible to devise some method by which a few days' rest could be given at a time intermediate between January and the latter part of June, it would most certainly be beneficial to students and instructors...
There is one matter about which we are a little doubtful. Was that article on "Sobriety" written to rebuke the students for unbecoming mirthfulness? It certainly looks that way; but far be it from us to entertain such an idea for a moment. Could their mirthfulness be unbecoming...