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...ability of the partisan, or whether there were other causes at work, is no longer known nor was it then, but it befell that victory came to the side of the partisan with the scorching pen. On victory followed strange mutations. The partisan became a diplomat, a courtier. The mind that had formulated the deadliest slings of politics turned genteel phrases. Words, always free to him, fell in modulated periods from his lips, tinted with no mean wit, with some felicity, some eccentricity. Being away, he was yet ever with his countrymen, catching their notice some times with a ridiculed...
King Albert of Belgium visited his aunt, the ex-Empress, last week. He was to her only a courtier in her halucinatory court...
...Collamores delivery of Aeneas' tale to Dido, and his ability subtly to distinguish the interwoven parts he played. As for Polonius, though his part was considerably shortened it still gave Mr. Peters opportunity to present the Lord Chamberlain as Shakepere conceived him--an aged but still efficient courtier and diplomat, ready with counsel and device, but kindly humoring the vagrant fancy of the young prince--not the doddering burlesque of age with which many an actor sets on some quantity of the barren spectators to laugh...
...next year's University sextet. Captain M. Duane has been starring for his team all the season and is the largest point-win- ner on the squad. At St. George's School, where he prepared for college, he was the outstanding player. J. D. Farnham is another fast courtier who has accounted for many of the team's high scores this year, and was the mainstay of the Exeter sextet last year. A. D. Knox, who during the first of the season was a strong member of the team, but has since been prevented from playing outside matches by academic...
...Music, Northampton; Saturday, April 17, in "The Barn," Wellesley. The cast: Gostanzo, R. L. Niles '09 Marc Antonio, G. S. Deming '10 Valerio, son to Gostanzo, F. A. Wilmot '10 Fortunio, son to Antonio, K. W. Hunter '12 Rynaldo, Fortunio's brother, L. R. Martineau, Jr., '09 Dariotto, courtier, T. S. Kenyon '11 Claudio, courtier, McC. Reinhart '12 Cornelio, courtier, J. A. Eccles '10 Curio, a page, C. E. Hale '10 Kyte, a scrivener, G. T. Vought '11 Fraunces Poke, a surgeon, R. C. Benchley '12 Gazetta, wife to Cornelio, C. H. Ernst '10 Bellanora, daughter to Gostanzo...