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During the summer the male toads stay in the water, and their peculiar note can be frequently heard. Nearly allied to the ordinary variety, is the solitary toad, which is seldom seen because it generally remains hidden under ground during the day time and only ventures out at night...
...Shakespeare's verse. His Hamlet was melodramatic, theatric, and moved brilliantly along over the surface of the poet's intention. Often, indeed, Mr. Tree dipped below the surface, but never sounded the depths. His Hamlet appealed to the eye, the ear, the nerves, sometimes to the heart; but seldom convincingly to the understanding, or deeply to the spirit. In general Mr. Tree treated the text with respect and with artistic skill...
...Yale News finds occasion for complaint in the lack of support given to the Mott Haven team this year. "Seldom has a Yale athletic team been so severely handicapped by having but a small number of candidates as has the present Mott Haven squad up to this time. Few of the old men have reported, and with the exception of some freshmen, scarcely a new man with any experience has attended the daily practice at the gymnasium. Yale's comparatively recent advance in this branch of athletics is due almost entirely to the faithful work of her teams and coaches...
...College House.HOLLIS STREET THEATRE. - Beginning tonight, "The Girl I Left Behind Me' will be the attraction at the Hollis Street Theatre. It is seldom that so thrilling a play is seen on the stage, and yet it is absolutely free from claptrap and melodramatic effort. Those who saw it at the Columbia last year will remember the intense enthusiasm that is always aroused by the arrival of the cavalry to rescue the beleaguered party in the stockade, and how this feat was sccomplished without the dring of a gun. The attack of the Indians could be plainly heard...
...seems to the outsider that there never was a time when the interference of the higher powers, so seldom exercised at sensible Yale, was less called for in the general athletic affairs of the University than at present. The whole trend of the athletic policies is toward moderation. Training for the baseball nine and the track team, generally well under way by this time, will not begin for another month or more. The base-ball management has decided to do without professional aid in coaching. Crew work was never as moderate as at present. The athletic problem seems...