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...gallery, starts tapping on a dish. This is taken up all over the hall and is accompanied by cheers. The performance is repeated as each new person arrives, until when the Hall is filled, the uproar is general, loud and continuous. The staring is not only extremely rude, but very embarrassing for any one subjected to it, and the noise and tapping is silly and cheap...
...front, the men were singing the original John Brown song. Four months later when Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, on her first visit to Washington, heard the soldiers from all sides singing this song, inspired by its stirring melody, yet not a little shocked by the rude pathos of its words, she composed here immoral 'Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...verse, too, thinks hard. Even "The Fawn" forgets to be a child in reason, and prettily woos his "nymph" (who, by the way, as an oak-dweller ought to have been a "dryad") with pantheistic appeal. The rude Scythian shepherd of Marlowe, brooding upon the unattainable, has grown "very weary" of his life,' and meditates upon the theme of vanity with the unction of a Stephen Phillips. And his rough soldiers as they march, sing with Shellevan opulence of fancy...
...Mexican antiques, which have been taken from excavations at Zumpango and Tecomaxochill. The collection consists of Crania, pottery, stone implements, soap stone vessels and small human effigies, one of which is a remarkably fine specimen. There are also beads of gadeite and shell, stone pendants and car ornaments, and rude figures of stone, fashioned from discarded axes...
...force; and though he concludes that the evidence upon the whole favors intercollegiate sports, he succeeds in shaking the reader's faith in much which may have been unquestioned. In fact to those who do not require good reasons for what they approve his treatment may seem a little rude. It is the kind of article which sets one thinking...