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...request of the patron of the Boston Opera House through whom the rebate was made, the distribution of order-slips will be temporarily suspended until further notice. It will be resumed again; but on account of a business arrangement, the box office will not honor the order-slips for the present. As soon as the arrangement is resumed notice will be given in the CRIMSON, and the Opera Ticket Committee of the Student Council will resume its office hours in Brooks House...
Through the generosity of a patron of the Boston Opera House, the Student Council is enabled to offer members of the University orders on the Opera House, entitling them to seats at half price. Not more than two seats will be given to any one man for the same performance, and only $1 and $2 seats will be included in the arrangement, which will apply to all performances except those on Saturday nights. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Student Council yesterday afternoon, the following committee was appointed to manage the assignment: W. C. Greene '11, chairman...
John Pierpont Morgan, public-spirited citizen; patron of literature and art; prince among merchants, who by his skill, his wisdom, and his courage has twice in times of stress repelled a national danger of financial panic...
Professor Lefranc advanced another interesting theory, that Moliere wrote "Don Juan" as an attack on his former patron, the Prince de Conti, who had lately gone over to the church party and had inveighed against. "Le Tartuffe" from that point of view. This great blow to Moliere was revenged by the faithful portrayal of the Prince in the figure of the libertine, Don Juan...
...broadened into other fields and the dramatic element increased at the expense of the choral element. But the conservation of the stage and perhaps of the priests of Dionysus preserved in the satyr play an interesting memorial of earlier days. Each tragic poet presented at the feast of the patron-god four plays; the last of these was the satyr play, which was really neither tragedy nor comedy, but a tragedy of the old type with all the rudeness and boisterousness of earlier times. Such a play is the Cyclops, the subject being the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus...