Word: low
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...characters (Proteus by name) so preposterous, that it is easy to understand the infrequent representations of the piece. The reason for its being seldom given, however, lies more perhaps in the fact that, with the partial exception of Launce, who belongs of course to the low comedian, there is no first-rate character for any one player. Whatever the reason, it is certain that the first valid record of any performance of "The Two Gentlemen" comes so late as the year 1762. The first American rendering was given in New York by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in the year...
...number of baseball season tickets which have thus far been sold is unpleasantly low, - so low as almost to force the inference that the extent of the sale depends to a large degree on the success of the nine. If true, this shows a deplorable state of affairs. Harvard men should be the last to forget that the obligation to support a team is only increased by a temporary lack of success. That the nine has unfortunately met with several defeats at the beginning of the season, and has not played fully up to the hopes of the College...
...Moon, where dwell the souls of those whose wills though set upon virtue, were unstable in character. From the Moon Beatrice lifts Dante with a look to the second heaven of Mercury, where rest the souls of those who have pursued honor and glory on earth. Their low station in heaven is owing to their excessive desire for honor while in the world of the living. The third sphere is that of the planet Venus, the last to which the shadow of the earth reaches. Here are the souls of those whose perfect virtue has been injured by the mingling...
...either college graduates or students of at least one year and members of their college organizations. Of the present active members sixteen are Columbia men, ten Princeton, nine Yale, three Harvard, three Amherst and the balance from other well-known colleges. Among the associate members are President Low, Frederic R. Coudert, Julien T. Davis and Nicholas Fish, of Columbia; Chauncey M. Depew and Judge Howland, of Yale; Joseph H. Choate and Edward King, of Harvard; James W. Alexander, Wm. B. Hornblower and Moses Taylor Pyne of Princeton. One public concert has been given this year...
Yesterday the 'varsity crew went back to its barge after a week in the shell. A slight accident delayed the crew for a short time as they were starting off for the afternoon row. The tide was low and in launching the barge a rock was struck, knocking a hole in the bottom. This was soon patched up. The makeup of the crew was considerably changed on account of the absence of a number of men. Captain Bullard watched the crew from the launch. He has a lame arm and will probably not row for several days. Hollister and Perkins...