Word: misses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tender invalid students who half their classes miss...
...scenery used on the occasion was very well adapted, the stage in one scene being an exact reproduction of room I, which is occupied by Miss Braislin, the Professor of Mathematics. The costumes were Japanese, with the exception of that of Latisha, which was classical. The Mathematikado wore a black robe of angular cut, embellished with geometrical figures in white; Trig Trig on the contrary was a pretty young girl in white, with wondrous problems pictured on her dress in black lines and figures; Ayty Ayt was an interesting and susceptible young man; and Bot Ah Nee wore a gown...
...first of the Boston readings was given by Dr. Holmes, Dr. Hale and Col. Higginson. The second of the series occurs next Tuesday at the Hawthorne Rooms, and is to be given by Louise Chandler Moulton, Louise Imogen Guiney and Mr. Arlo Bates. The arrangements are in charge of Miss Hersey of Chestnut street and Miss Howe of Cambridge...
...twelve authors at most can be studied during the year. We have absolutely no opportunity as far as I know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about...
...Miss Gertrude Franklin was the soloist. Her voice is pleasant in quality, but lacks the power to make the most of such a piece as the first aria. The second, which called for nothing more than expert and smooth vocalization, was more within her powers. The audience, which was rather small on account of the bad weather, was sufficiently pleased to recall her after each number...