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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should be so called is not made very plain to the audience, is a sensational play with a well constructed plot, and although some of the characters and situations are worn a little threadbare by constant use, nevertheless are so skillfully managed as to make it seem almost like a new play. The play is well cast and the company appear to better advantage than in the many plays which they have presented...
...determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They lie hid in two sacs in the roof of the mouth, and are hidden, when the snake is quiet, like a cat's claws. The snake has regular noxillaries like any other carnivore, though it does not masticate its food. The fangs are only used when the beast is angry, and are thrown forward and filled with the poison...
...closing address was made by Rev. Phillips Brooks: "There are two influences at work for the future as in the past, our principles, which like everything else are most powerful when most pure, and our personal qualities. These personal qualities must be brought out to do their utmost, this is education. In history, there have always been those who spread faith and those who purified it. We purify it by casting out what was foreign to it, compulsion. Our appeals mast be to your humanity, not so much to your student nature. The quantity of religion...
...York in the steamboat "City of Worcester." Efforts were made to secure quarters at Gale's Ferry, near the other crews, but no place could be found, so that the crew were obliged to put up at the Crocker House, where they now are. The men hardly look like a university crew, and one would scarcely think them equal to a four mile race. Yesterday afternoon they took a time row over the course, followed by their coach, Ellis Ward, in the launch. They row quite smoothly, but lack life and staying power...
...return to the crew's daily routine. After breakfast, the men do whatever they feel like. Some sit down to write letters, some read or talk, - I have seen none studying as yet. Others amuse themselves by watching through a telescope the various steam yachts and sail-boats which are continually passing. At about ten the crew walk down to the little boat-house, and get ready for their morning pull. The shell in use now is the old '85 boat, in which the 'varsity won their races last year. It is probably not quite as strong and stiff...