Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...left free to devote their entire attention to acquiring and imparting the best knowledge of their respective departments. When that time comes, the mischievous class system, with its silly notions of caste and artificial distinctions among the students, will be abolished, together with annual examinations; students will take a final examination as soon as they find themselves prepared for it, whether it be at the end of two, three, four or six years. Harvard should also be relieved from the entire burden and trouble of entrance examinations; a certificate of graduation from such preparatory schools as maintain the university standard...
...dyspeptic contemporary satirically says that Mary Anderson, in Galatea, "during a considerable portion of her time on the stage, appears as a statue, and as a statue she is without a rival. . . . When the final moment comes. Miss Anderson mounts the pedestal with dignity and self-possession, much as she might if she were going to have a photograph taken...
Last Thursday morning the HERALD issued two editions. Nearly 200 copies of the first edition, containing an account of the final scene in the Guiteau??? trial, were sold in the streets before the Boston papers reached Cambridge. The amount of money realized from this undertaking was, of course, small; but if we have succeeded in showing the public that we can present them with the latest news as soon as they can get it from the Boston papers, we rest well satisfied with our enterprise...
...poor, and during the greater part of the time she was on the stage her action was not nearly so strong as the character demanded. Her enunciation was indistinct in many places, and throughout she made use of an assumed tragic voice that was not natural. In her final scene, however, just before Jocasta leaves the stage for the last time, she gave a fine bit of acting, far above the mediocre, for which she was recalled upon the stage...
...production of the "OEdipus," was but fairly interpreted, the chorus being especially weak; but after the experience of an evening's performance, much improvement will undoubtedly be shown in the subsequent representations. That the performance was received with much favor was shown by the fact that after the final scene the audience remained seated until Mr. Riddle and Miss Cayvan reappeared on the stage, when they were greeted with round after round of applause...