Word: partes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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PROFESSOR SHALER will return from Europe the latter part of May. He will assist in managing a summer school at Nantucket, in which Professor Agassiz, and other eminent naturalists of the College, will lecture. The design of the school is to give field instruction to those who intend to become teachers of Natural History. Board will be cheap, and the tuition-fee probably about...
...Globe.All who had the pleasure of seeing Miss Ethel during her brief two weeks of performance were heartily sorry to hear of her sudden illness. Miss Ethel has won the Boston heart, and we trust that she will soon return and complete her too short engagement. The part of Agnes has been assumed by Mrs. Barry this week with great success, considering how short was the time given her for preparation...
Boston Theatre.During the last week of her engagement Miss Neilson alternated "Romeo and Juliet" with "As you like it." Rosalind is purely a comedy part, and differs as far as possible from that of Juliet. Throughout the lighter scenes the beautiful actress was the very impersonation of mirth and light-heartedness. Her smiles and laughter were natural and contagious. Nothing could exceed the grace of her figure, her costume, and her movements. She was most pleasing in her interview with Orlando containing the words "Woo me now," in her advice to the unhappy Shepherds, and in the Epilogue...
...excellent presence, he looked and acted extremely well. His performance was, however, marred by the excessive friskiness with which he trotted about the stage at all times and seasons, and by a too rapid delivery. Having virtue on his side, and a good deal of profanity in his part, it is needless to say that he created a very favorable sentiment in the galleries. Messrs. Weaver and Aldrich among the gentlemen, and Mrs. Poole as Lady De Winter, deserve praise; Miss Fisk as the Queen, and Miss Noah as Constance, made the best of their small opportunities...
Much is said of the evils of cramming, by which is usually meant the filling of the mind with a multitude of facts a day or so before examination. But cramming applies also to the process of learning perfectly each part of a subject as it is presented in the daily lessons. There are very few really hard students, or else this method of cramming would be decried as much as the other. For many ideas are forced upon the memory without being understood, and whenever this is done evil surely results. My experience, which I think is not peculiar...