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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scene of murder, 12 1/2f; ordinary laughter, 5f; bursts of laughter, 10f; exclamations - "Oh, how droll!" etc., 15f; superlative exclamations - "It is simply magnificent!" "It is unequalled!" 20f. The sifflet a succes, or "the friendly hiss," is not, we learn, supplied under 20f. The item which strikes our fancy most is the "moan followed by applause at the end" of a murder scene, for which the groanist gets 10s. 5d. "a go." The profession of actor is often a lucrative one; of a playwright who hits the popular taste, a brilliantly paid one; but the man who could get continuous...
...Yale News, January 24, says: "The Harvard HERALD, the new daily, claims to have a circulation of 5000. We are a 'doubting Thomas' on that item of circulation." That a few misstatements should occasionally be made in the columns of every college paper is not to be wondered at; but notwithstanding this, the News has no excuse whatever for the publication of a statement like the above. Not one single word concerning our circulation has ever been made in the columns of the HERALD, and to claim a circulation of 5000 would, indeed, be preposterous. A statement has also been...
...actual cost of board for the month of October was about $5.00 per week, but the auditor, under a misapprehension as to the nature and purpose of the "item balance," charged a large portion of it to reducing the price of board in his monthly statement, whereby the price of board was made to appear less than the actual cost. An error of judgment, which perhaps arose from a lack of information as to the nature of said "balance...
...item in the last Crimson, stating that the Glee Club would make a trip through the West during the Christmas vacation, referred to that of Yale, and should have been credited to the News...
...item in the Echo a few days since announced the establishment at Columbia of a six-year honor course in modern languages. Scandinavian, unknown at Harvard, is included in the list; and, as far as we can judge without fuller information, the course seems to us a very complete and judicious one. That some change must soon be made in our own method is evident, and the example of Columbia may well be cited as a move in the right direction. A course covering six years will certainly be an inducement to those interested in the study of modern languages...