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Once more the doors of long closed theatres open to waiting and expectant sons of Boston and files of goodly souls buy tickets to multifarious musical comedies and plays of the "Pigs" variety. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose! Boston is not a town where the theatre thrives. People here are evidently content with the bromides of the usual Boston musical comedy and the rapid evolutions of legs clad in cheese cloth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRICAL SEASON | 9/25/1926 | See Source »

...this paper. With Premier Haldwin as their guide and sana means in corpore sano as their motto they are standing, bloody but unbowed before the rushing legions of adversity. So none need fear any revolution in Cambridge. Plus as change--as Talley-rand might comment--plus c'est la meme chose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUL STRIKES | 5/7/1926 | See Source »

...suis, croyez-le bien, tres touche de votre tres cordial accueil en meme temps que j'en suis fort honore, et permettez que je vous felicite de l'idee quivous a conduit a m' exprimer votre sympathie dans ce milieu qui deja m'est familier et sous cette forme que je trouve des plus originales. Savez-vous que yotre fete est des plus reussies! . . . et que beaucoup regretteront de n'avoir pu y assister! . . . Elle me rappelle notamment certaine fete annuelle que nous avons, nous aussi a Paris-ce fameux bal des quatre arts dont vos anciens vous auront transmis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Duquesne's Response at Masque | 5/15/1911 | See Source »

...plus inattendues, elle est devenue une veritable grand fete, tres pittoresque, ma foi, dans laquelle vos costumes rappelant certaines grandes epoques de l'hostoire contrastent avec ceux de vos professeurs et le mien qui rappellent plusieurs siecles de traditions que je suis sur vous chercherez a perpetuer. C'est meme a cela qu'en terminant je vous inviteral tout particulierement-n'oubliez jamais que vous appartenez a Harvard-sachez lui conserver le bon renom que vos amis lui ont acquis-prouvez enfin parvos travaux, et meme dans vos jeux, que vous la voulez toujours en tres bonne place parmi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Duquesne's Response at Masque | 5/15/1911 | See Source »

...supremest height of impersonal utterance. Then, like Elias, the prophet, "he stands up as fire, and his word burns like a lamp." But too often, when left to his own resources, and to the conscientious performance of the duty laid upon him to be a great poet quand meme, he seems diligently intent on producing fire by the primitive method of rubbing the dry sticks of his blank verse one against the other, while we stand in shivering expectation of the flame that never comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/27/1894 | See Source »

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