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This evening the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will give its first public performance of Nicholas Udall's "Ralph Roister Doister". This play, surviving in one copy owned by Eton College, is usually regarded as our first English comedy in the sense that people and manners English and not foreign are depicted wholly for amusement and not to instruct or to moralize. It was written for the Eton or Westminister School boys to act, for Udall was successively master in both schools. It derives its inspiration from Latin comedy, but as a whole is original and English...
...Ralph Roister Doister" was written over three hundred and fifty years ago by Nicholas Udall, and Eton schoolmaster, as a farce comedy for his publis to act. The play was an instantaneous success...
...play was probably written between 1534 and 1541 when Udall was headmaster of Eton School, the play having been performed by the Eton boys at that time. It is unlikely that the play was written after 1541, as Udall was dismissed from Eton soon afterwards charged with stealing the silver images from the college chapel. The play is supposed to have been lost from 1566 for a period of about two hundred and fifty years, so that not until 1818 was a copy extant and the play again produced. Since that date it has been revived with greater frequency than...
Talking about English college papers, Dr. Prothero recounted several reminiscences of his own early experiences. A paper was started at Eton in 1864--the first one in England. Its start was adventurous and so it continued for its short existence. Radical papers also had short lives; but in the sense with which we speak of American college papers, no such thing existed in English universities until within the last few years...
Following the dinner, Major Higginson introduced William S. Hall '69, the toast master of the evening, who told briefly of the days when Harvard crews raced on Lake Quinsigamond. As an old warrior once said, "The battle of Waterloo was won on the cricket ground at Eton." The place to prepare for the struggles of life is in the struggles at college. He finished by presenting President Lowell...