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...Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney, Va.) Ex-Governor Elbert Lee Trinkle of Virginia...................... LL.D...
Every year Harvard graduates several men whose intended career is the theatre and its allied arts, and she may point with pride at many illustrious examples, such as Osgood Perkins, Walter Hampden, Kenneth Macgowan, John Mason Brown, and Donald Oenslager. Back in the days of Professor Baker's English 47 and the Workshop, the stream of Harvard men into the theatre's ranks was steady and large, but with Professor Baker's and the Drama department's migration to New Haven, the torrent dwindled to a mere trickle, fed only by the untiring efforts of the Dramatic Club. The students...
...Lord! this business doth chill my spine and I did wish the over with it lest I show my heart over much. Indeed, methinks the actor Hampden did employ the grand manner too much and unlike the little leaf which a breath of wind doth cause to fall, he did go down more like a log. But all in all this play did bring me great pleasure...
Thence, goodby to the little bird beside me; and I backstage to see Mr. Hampden, who, having a massage did ask me wait. So, I to talking to a pretty one and did comment on her performance but was sore at my heart when she did inform me she was not "in the performance." Whereupon we both did laugh...
Soon I to Hampden, but now my eyes being tired, must postpone the writing until anon. Weary, but very merry...