Word: fakir
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...excuse for a plot is conceived in a novel manner. In a sort of prologue, Professor Fakir introduces his class of six budding playwrights, who announce in turn the subject of their first dramatic efforts. The scenes that follow offer the amateur composers an opportunity to enact their creations, and thus we have six miniature playlets within the play, interspersed at varying intervals with the inevitable dance and song divertissements which are essential to all true musical reviews. The first incident,--"The Hat Bazaar,"--immediately puts the spectators in good humor, a humor which is constantly enhanced as the show...
...cast will be as follows: Maharajah of Kunda, W. C. Clark '03 Rao of Matchoo, R. Inglis '03 Gunga Ka, his son incognito at the court of the Maharajah, H. L. Riker '03 Tel-As-Scope, court astrologer, C. G. Loring '03 Vizier, S. Waller '03 Bill Beladon, Boston fakir, R. W. Child '03 Harry Hamemilis, Boston fakir, G. O. Winston '04 Moni Ghon, Minister of Treasury, J. C. Lord '03 Fewa Crops, Minister of Agriculture, V. C. Mather '03 Creedan Bighat, Guardian of Temple, A. S. Thurston '03 General Deva Stashion, J. S. Seabury '04 Lao, Guardian...
Hollis Street Theatre-Flora Moor in the "Fakir...
...author opens with remarks about the word pony. At Cornell the word has a different meaning from that which it bears nearly everywhere else, being used to signify a crib, or other unlawful aid used at examinations or recitations. At Bowdoin a crib is known as a fakir, and at Yale it is a skin. The author - Richard Grant Black is his name - makes one or two unimportant mistakes with regard to the few original slang words in use here. Snab for girls, he tells us, is a Harvard word. He may be right, but I think very few undergraduates...
...specialize or differentiate is the object of a post-graduate course, or a professional school. Modern induction requires the eye of the thinker to have a broad range, - college teaches us to see widely; then, properly, should begin that special investigation which is to turn our inert comparison and Fakir-like contemplation into the enthusiastic pursuit of that knowledge for which our collegiate course has shown us best fitted, - the Professional Schools teach us to see deeply...