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...they all agree in predicting for him a future full of brilliant success. Keene possesses a wonderful power of facial expression; his gestures are manly and in good taste, and his voice is unsurpassed. He shows the evil effects of his Western tour in his tendency to mistake rant for passion, in his desire, to use theatrical parlance, to catch the gallery. Besides this, he wholly lacks the studied method of the Booth school, to which he is generally regarded as belonging. During the week he will appear in "Richard III.," "Macbeth," and "Fool's Revenge...
...reply to the extremely sensible article in the Yale Courant, quoted at length in our last issue, the Cornell Era has printed a column of school-boy rant, which goes far to prove that the muscles of the Cornell students have been developed at the expense of their intellectual powers...