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Perhaps the best piece of writing in the number is the poem on "The Bold Subscription Man" which fits in well with a current popular air. The parody is unusually clever, and the characteristics of the "subscription fiend" are well depicted. Next in merit is "The Goody Destructa," another animal from "Lampy's Menagerie," which is fast growing to a fine and entertaining collection...
From the opening scene of Faust's studio, where the pale, ascetic student, wearying of his search after truth, calls upon the arch fiend to aid him, the audience is carried through a bewildering array of scenes, each one a master-piece. Scenic artist Frank King has worked unceasingly for two weeks past and professes himself satisfied with the result. The electrical effects form a very large part of the production, and these are adequately supplied by Electrician Murphy...
Staten Island plays here this afternoon and an interesting contest is expected. Owing to mismanagement and neglect the tennis courts have not been laid out for the season, so that the "tennis fiend" must needs content himself with playing base-ball...
...request to have the library open until 10 p. m. It seems a pity that the whole pleasure and convenience in using the library should still be spoiled by careless management of the heating arrangements. The room should be comfortably warm (and I myself am not a fresh air fiend), but when it gets so hot that one is very apt to fall asleep and dream of purgatory, the study of serious matters is wrongly interfered with. As it is now, one must either be melted or open the windows, getting a bad cold either way; or be the victim...
...amount not covered by gate receipts and subscriptions, $2857.40, is met by glee club and miscellaneous receipts. These figures show that the subscription fiend, with his little book, is quite a striking personage at Yale - in fact many of the students think he strikes too often. When any of the teams are winners, an extra call for funds is made so as to present them with trophies. The amount spent for athletics by Yale men, individually, cannot, of course, be computed, but it is safe to figure that it would carry the yearly aggregate somewhat beyond the $25,000 mark...