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This evening, at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read from Dickens and Thackeray. The program will include the scene between Esmond and the Prince, that between Rawdon Crawley and Lord Steyne, a passage from "Nicholas Nickleby," one from "The Book of Snobs," and Mr. Pickwick's Adventure with the Lady of the Yellow Curl Papers. The reading will be open only to members of the University...
...Mitchell, therefore, selects Becky Sharp as the central figure of his drama. From her life he picks out four strong "situations,"--the flight with Rawdon, the Waterloo ball, the midnight supper with Lord Steyne, and the last days at Pumpernickel,--and to the strongest of these, the third, he subordinates the rest, making each the subject...
...Papers," the passage in which the Pickwickians first meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and "The Cratchets' Christmas Dinner"; from Henry Esmond, the part in which Lady Castlewood explains to Lord Hamilton Esmond's right to be present at the marriage of Beatrix; and from "Vanity Fair," the passage in which Rawdon Crawley surprises Becky with Lord Steyn; "The Cane-Bottom Chair," "The Age of Wisdom" and "The End of the Play...
...Thomas Rawdon Fisher, Jr., of New Rochelle, N. Y., has been elected captain of the Yale track team for next year. He is now in the senior class but will return next fall for graduate studies...
...less than three of the articles in the Atlantic Monthly for June are from the pen of Harvard professors. Professor Charles Eliot Norton contributes a charming sketch entitled "Rawdon Brown and the Gravestone of 'Banished Norfolk,' " in which he describes Mr. Brown's antiquarian works in Venice. Professor C. H. Toy has an article on the origin and history of "The Thousand and One Nights." The mixed Indian and Persian and Arabian character of the stories is traced. Professor Royce publishes his second paper of "Reflections after a Wandering Life in Australasia" which is fully as thoughtful and interesting...