Word: jim
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drama of the modern class, though slightly above the average as regards dialogue and stage settings. The situations, though at times absurdly unnatural and forced, display evidence of power in the authors. Miss Tiffany as Biddy Ronan was exceptionally good and received the most applause, and Mr. Edison as Jim Fairon, made a decided hit. Miss Rand is a little inclined to be too "stagey," but on the whole interpreted the dual of Mrs. and Miss Standish in an intelligent manner. Next week Mr. Emmet appears as "Fritz...
...river is delight fully cool and bracing, and consequently the oarsmen are all feeling wonderfully well. To use an old boatman's words, who rowed me across Gale's Ferry the other day, "The people don't die at all round these parts. No sir. There's Jim Smith over there, you see, hoeing his garden, well he's lived to be a hundred and two, and is likely to live as long again. There's no graveyards round here. If a man wants to die he crawls away off into the woods some where and dies there." Perhaps this...
...JIM NASIUM...
...loan of a room in Holworthy for the afternoon. It would be nice to have some room where you could take the girls to see the fun. I will bring Sadie and Hattie, Jim says he can get Nellie to come. The old folks may not be able to stand...
ROPE CLIMBING.Foster, '85, E. E. Allen, '84, and Pudor, '86, entered to see who could reach the ceiling of the gymnasium. This year, Jim, the gymnasium boy, was perched on a ladder to see which should be the first man up. Allen and Foster went up first. The usual safety ropes were dispensed with. Allen reached the top in 22 seconds. Pudor, who went up alone, made it in 22 3-4 seconds. Foster did not reach the top at all. Allen's record was better than that made by Marquand last year. so that it stands as the Harvard...