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...athletic contests have sometimes been called "war." Possibly they may partake of the nature of war, but we should not forget that after all it is a mimic war, and that the players themselves are perhaps more conscious of this difference than the spectators. Too much is the athlete regarded as a fighter in a great cause, whose efforts must be supported both on and off the field in every possible way. A cloud of witnesses around the grounds, holding his every action in full survey, seems to be regarded as a legitimate division of the army, which...
...Decadence of English Speech." This will be Mr. Riddle's first appearance as a lecturer although he is well known as a public reader. He has had an extensive acquaintance with the leading actors and public speakers of the last 25 years and as he is a capital mimic, he will be able to illustrate his lecture vividly with imitations of the various methods of speakers from Dickens and Tennyson to those of the modern stage. This lecture will be open to the public, but tickets of admission will be required and may be obtained at Sever...
...Decadence of English Speech." This will be Mr. Riddle's first appearance as a lecturer, although he is well known as a public reader. He has had an extensive acquaintance with the leading actors and public speakers of the last 25 years, and, as he is a capital mimic, he will be able to illustrate his lecture vividly with imitations of the various methods of speakers from Dickens and Tennyson to those of the modern stage. This lecture will be open to the public, but tickets of admission will be required and may be obtained at Sever...
...Wooley in the title role took every one by storm. The part is often looked upon as a secondary one and kept in the shadow of the others, but there was no keeping the mimic ruler of Japan in the shade last night, as seven recalls to his first song (and laugh testified...
...associated with St. Saviour's and the Bankside that a youth intended for the church even then, and maybe possessing budding Puritan principles, may not have been unconscious of; while those evidences which lay about him might have given some strain to his devotional instincts. The upholders of the mimic scene were quite as striking figures in the boy's memory of what in Southwark he may have seen and must have heard. He could hardly have remembered the "forenoone knell of the great bell," as the church records tell the story, when Edmund Shakspere, in 1607, was buried...