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...favorite "The Capture of Bacchus" and the latter rendered on his violin the difficult adagio from Viotti's Twenty-second concerto. The great hit of the evening here as in St. Louis and New York was the college song, "Imogene Donahue" with solo by Lockwood, '90, and the "Darkey's Dream" by the Banjo Club. In regard to the Glee Club we quote a few words from a Cincinnati paper: "If music, heavenly maid, was not pleased with the appearance of these thirty dress-coated young Adonises, she can be in no wise the seraphic damsel we have been...
...demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum...
SOME years ago Professor Harman was explaining to a darkey in Piney Woods the cause of the eclipses of the sun and moon. Listening awhile, he exclaimed: "That's what they told me at home, but I did not believe them; for I thought if God created those things, he would make them run clear...
...common with the Yale Record, the Yale Courant, and the Advocate, we have failed to meet the approval of the Cornell Times. We suppose there is nothing left for us all but death. The Times, certainly, has plenty of bodies to mangle. It reminds us of the darkey's explanation of the miracle. "Why," said he, "five thousand loaves and seven thousand fishes were divided among the twelve Apostles. Miracle was, they did n't bust!" Though, to be sure, it is rather blasphemous to compare the twelve Apostles with the Editors of the Cornell Times...