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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...self-possessed, though had he slightly raised his voice, he would have been better heard. The ladies were very good; their parts were well acted and showed study; a little more freedom in the pose of the arms might have improved the effect, still we have no fault to find, and compliment them on their costumes. Mrs. Carver appeared well in her rather difficult part, and fainted with good grace. Between the acts the Glee Club and the Pierian favored us with some music, done in their usual good way. And here we would say that the audience is hardly...
...generalization of this instruction, its application to all. Had we, in connection with the classical studies, some system of professional instruction corresponding to the Real Schulen of the Germans, we should not see so many useless individuals, so many fruits secs as they are called. We should find advantage in having the mass of our young men, instead of pursuing exclusively the dead languages, learning the living ones; instead of comparing Latin orations, perfecting themselves in the study of French; instead of giving themselves up to the indolent and fruitless exercise of making Latin verses, devoting themselves to the study...
...those better informed. Members of the first class calculate how many pages they can write in an hour, fill that amount of paper with headings of paragraphs, and are then ready. A consideration which gives the plan a favorable reception among this class is, that they need only find some one who has written out a good abstract and learn it, thereby saving themselves a vast amount of trouble. The case is not very different with the second class. They also calculate to a nicety how much they can possibly write in an hour. They make out their abstract...
...perhaps a little anxious withal, lest the judgment of American theatre goers should be biassed by national prejudice. But his anxiety was groundless, for Fechter was received with hearty applause and lenient criticism. His conception of the part proved very different from Booth's, nor did it fail to find crowds of admirers, who hastened, perhaps unduly, to transfer their allegiance. Unduly, because some of them have since returned to their former position, having found that Booth's Hamlet stands better the test of being seen again and again, than that of the German actor...
...other hand, it seems very difficult to assign any sufficient reason for prohibiting smoking in a room of this kind, as none of the arguments which usually hold against it apply in the present case. The old gentlemen and middle-aged females who object to tobacco on principle seldom find their way into Lower Massachusetts; and it is safe to say that not one in a hundred of those who do frequent the room really dislike to have tobacco smoke around them...