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...plot concerns the discovery of an unknown who has written a lampoon against the emperor of Austria. The minister of police suspects a certain Armand, but can obtain no evidence because Armand has destroyed all extant examples of his handwriting. Armand loves the ladies, so the minister sets a score of them to cajole him into writing a letter, but all their wiles are in vain, till suddenly the minister's niece appears. She agrees to try the task, but is not told why, hence she innocently lures him to his social ruin. In the last act he is enlightened...
...Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity has decided to present this year for its fourteenth annual dramatic revival, the earliest Elizabethan play extant, "Ralph Roister Doister", by Nicholas Udall. This comedy has been successfully revived by various college dramatic clubs in recent years and has been selected for the present revival because of its significance in the history of drama and for its excellent staging qualities...
...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 is usual for Elizabethan plays...
...Mechanical Analogues for Electromagnetic Systems"; one to R. C. Mullenix for an essay on "The Neurone Theory: Its Development and its Present Suits"; and one to E. A. Hecker for an essay on "The Progress of Humanitarianism in the first three centuries after Christ, as exhibited in the extant Greek and Latin Authors of that Period." First undergraduate prize of $250 to K. Costikyan '09 for an essay on "Cardinal Newman's Religion." Second undergraduate prize of $100 to P. Mariett '11 for an essay on "Skiamachia: A Study in Character" and one of $100 to be divided between...
...copy of the "Obsequies of John Kean," in which Milton's Lycidas first appeared. There is also a copy of the first printed collection of his poems, dated 1645. A copy of the second folio edition of Shakspere's works, which contains Milton's earliest printed work now extant, his lines on Shakspere has been loaned for the exhibit. The controversial tracts are represented by about 30 volumes. "Paradise Lost" is shown in a large number of editions beginning with two states of the first published...