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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hollis Halls" defeated the "Moses Lights," 18-16, in a listless, six inning game. Owing to the inability of any of the pitchers to find the plate, Brown and Doran were taken from behind the bat and pitched the game out for their respective sides...
...games in the scrub baseball series for the Leiter cup championship will begin this afternoon. Five diamonds have been laid out-three on Norton's and two on Soldiers Field. The nines will find the bases on Norton's Field set out for them; the bases for the diamonds on Soldiers may be obtained from the janitor in charge of the Locker building any time this afternoon. Balls may be obtained at the Crimson office by the captains, who will have to sign for them, giving their own name and that of their team. Captains are also reminded that they...
...been previously stated, the dates have been changed. Graduates' night will be tomorrow, when the performance will begin at 8 o'clock. The public Cambridge performances will be on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings of this week Men who find it inconvenient to attend any of the performances here will have opportunities to see the play next Monday and Tuesday at the Bijou Theatre in Boston...
Moliere, said he, was in the XVIIth century to France what Shakespeare was to England and Cervantes to Spain. Above all a Frenchman and a Parisian, a bourgeois of Paris, we continually find this vein running through all his work. Like so many other great writers he was a bourgeois, his father being "tapisseir du roi." His parents, being ambitious for their son, sent him to the College of Clermont; but he disappointed their hopes, and at the age of twenty-one took to the stage-a profession at this time of extreme ill repute. Alone in the world...
...first opportunity of judging the results of Moliere's travels was afforded by his first two comedies-"Les Precieuses Ridicules" and "L'Ecole des Femmes." What strikes one above all in these plays is their national character. They are the first purely national plays which we find in France at this period. Another most noteworthy fact is that these two comedies for the first time introduced the bourgeoisie upon the French stage. Hitherto the drama had dealt merely with the aristocracy. In Moliere the bourgeoisie found its exponent...