Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some attempt should be made this year to change the method of distributing degrees to members of the senior class on Commencement. Owing to the large numbers in the graduating classes of recent years, the wholesale distribution in Sanders Theatre has caused a scene of confusion which it is hard to reconcile with any idea of dignity attaching to the exercises of the day. The actual process of conferring the degrees is out of harmony with the general tone of the exercises. These, to be appropriate to the occasion when seniors are finally closing their college career, should be dignified...
...college chapel, or that the College having waited for a century and a half before conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws to men outside her own number, elected George Washington as the first to whom this order should be given. Or to take a later scene, in the early days of the Civil War in 1861, the diary of the treasurer of the college tells of how he used to come to Cambridge at eight in the morning to drill the 'College troops.' A large faction of that company of students that marched around the college yard were within...
62tTHE programme of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is a splenid monument to the abilities of that enterprising person and his power of attracting the best performers to exhibit before the best audiences. The first five events illustrate exciting scenes on the great American prairie before the railroads had been projected west. In the fifth event a prairie emigrant train crossing the plains is attacked by a wild band of Indians who are gallantly repulsed by Buffalo Bill and a few scouts. The whole scene is thrillingly realistic in the smoke and broil of battle which it represents. Next...
...Abbott's. It was last sung in Boston, as a grand production, by the Mapleson company. The Baker Opera Company, with William Wolff, gave its last performance here two years ago at the Bowdoin Square Theatre. The hero, Fra Diavolo, is a brigand, who is discovered in the first scene personating the Marquis of San Marco, in which disguise he has been tracking the course of an English traveller and his lady, Lord Rocbury and Lady Pamela (Anglice, Lord and Lady Allcash) on a tasteful blending of business and pleasure, his object being to rob both parties of their cash...
...last minute the missing Lovelace rushes in, and Lithia at once flies to him. But when Kidd shows that the poet has discarded her picture she becomes cold once more, and Kidd is at the point of triumph when Tabitha appears upon the scene, and, at the instigation of Bloodso, discovers at last her husband...