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...scene of the first act is laid in a plain near Babylon. Queen Semiramais of Egypt is visiting King Nimrod at the time when the tower of Babel is nearing completion, but which has been delayed by disputes between the builders, the firm of Hem and Haw. King Nimrod with difficulty evades the blandishments of the queen. The scene of the second act is laid at the bast of the tower of Babel. Hem and Haw settle their differences and attempt to complete the tower when they are frustrated by that famous catastrophe. The nation of Babylon is disorganized...
University Four--Stroke, G. G. Bacon; 3, Burchard; 2, Swaim; haw, Wiggins; cox., Arnold...
Last night the usual large audience heard Mr. E. Charlton Black's lecture on "Spenser and Drummond of Haw hornden." Mr. Black first spoke of the events which preceded and prepared the way for Spenser's writings...
...Yale, the Columbia managers will make extra efforts to turn out a fast crew; and we have found that they can succeed pretty well when they try. We must assume then that the Columbia freshmen will be as skilful in the use of the oar as our men. Haw can Harvard win? There are two respects in which our men can prove themselves superior, viz., material and capacity for work...
...tendencies the CRIMSON reprobated were the adoption of ways not simply un-American, but highly ridiculous as well. The assumption of an "haw-haw" accent even when the impostor was English, was keenly satirized by Lord Lytton in his novel "Night and Morning...