Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...editorial articles in the last Advocate have afforded me so much entertainment that I 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...
...inspects the rooms, and is ready to receive any complaints that may be made. The invariable reply to her question if the goody does her work well, is, according to her statement, "O yes. All right." She finds it difficult, therefore, to discover where the trouble lies of which public complaint is made, and desires us to state that if any one who thinks his room is neglected will send a note to the College Matron, 28 Mellen Street, she will see that matters are arranged to his satisfaction...
...happy and expectant mood, which the excellence of the burlesque did not at all disappoint. Like most burlesques which go through the remodelling and adapting hands of college societies, the title gave a very insufficient clew to the real nature of the play. Few burlesques have been given in public by our students which were so full of conversational "hits" and interesting stage "business" as this one, and it fairly bubbled over with puns, although many of these last were lost on all but the acute ears of college men. The playing, except in one or two cases...
...Rosemi Shell" was then "hurled in the faces of the public regardless of all expense." The title-role was filled by a gentleman who took the part on the morning preceding the entertainment. His conception of the part was admirable, and he never so much as forgot a word of his lines through the entire performance...
...other way when he met him in the Yard (as I saw him do the other day because of his personal appearance), he would have denied it indignantly. Now the truth is, that our friend Augustus is a little inclined to "snobbishness," and a little too much afraid of public opinion; in fact, in a small way, he comes pretty near "meanly worshipping a mean thing," - the best definition of a snob ever given. Now I don't want Augustus to make an intimate friend of Smudge, and I am not at all certain that Smudge would want...