Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard Theatricals given on the 8th of May in New York, by the Harvard Club of that city, were a success. The burlesque of William Tell formed the chief part of the performance, and was preceded by the farce of "The Morning Call." Mr. S. H. Hooper, '75, played the part of Gesler, and was very funny, although he did not make the hit of the evening. That was left for Tell to do. The burlesque was followed by dancing...
...venture to trespass on your columns, to call public attention to some of the extraordinary statements which your contemporary has seen fit to publish I will begin with one or two mistakes which a glance at any official publication would have remedied at once. In the first editorial the new theatre of Memorial Hall is referred to once as "Sanders's Theatre," and once as the "Theatrum." The first name would lead one to suppose that it was a place of public entertainment, where the performances were presumably of a variety character; the last that the word theatre was unknown...
...another column Gabriel Conroy, the latest work of Mr. Bret Harte, is spoken of as the new story by Rev. E. E. Hale, - a statement which, if true, will probably involve lawsuits and a literary scandal of the first magnitude...
...clothes were certainly not made by Poole, and I don't think his hat ever saw London, or, if it did, it has certainly been on this side of the water long enough to make good a claim for naturalization; but though his clothes are far from new, they are very neat, and he evidently bestows quite as much water on the outside of his body (and probably more on the inside) than our friend Augustus...
...then, you know, it's something new...