Word: minstrels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mammoth minstrel entertainment takes place Friday evening. The sale of reserved seats has been unprecedented by any college entertainment. From all accounts the evening's fun will be great. It is the first and probably the last performance of the kind in the history of the college...
...last Exonian devotes a page to the account of the minstrel show which was given by the students a short time...
President Gates, of Rutgers has refused permission to the students to give a minstrel entertainment for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Prof. Gates thinks it beneath the dignity of students to blacken their faces and appear on the stage...
...last to be favored with a minstrel show, the only genuine "Mammoth Minstrels." The arrangements are being made and the fair will take place the evening of March 8th. The funds accruing will be put into the treasury of the "Town Tennis Association." We have abundant talent for the undertaking and a thorough-going success is predicted...
...shown such untiring zeal and energy the past few years, will hold its trials for the well-know comedy, "Our Boys," by Mr. H. J. Byron. All the parts are open and a vigorous competition is anticipated. There is also a movement on foot to get up a minstrel entertainment. There is good material in college for such an undertaking; the scheme has been suggested in the past but always fell through for lack of a leading man to rush it to completion...