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About 175 men have volunteered their services and they will be assigned sections according to their qualifications. Mandolin players will be divided into three clubs under the direction of J. L. White '06, N. C. Nash '07, and J. B. Husband '08. Men who are experienced readers, or sleight-of-hand performers, and are willing to do this work, are requested to send their names to J. L. White...
...undertaking which reached a high degree of development last year is the sending out of "entertainment troupes," made up of volunteer readers, musicians, sleight of hand men, etc., which give entertainments in hospitals, poor houses, and other social institutions. Men who have ability to entertain, who are willing to do this work and have not already registered for it, should send their names to J. L. White '06, Grays...
...communicates with men who have volunteered, securing from these a troupe of from three to ten for the occasion. The entertainments, being generally before audiences of working-people, are very informal, and the programs are seldom arranged in advance. These programs consist mainly of musical numbers, reading, and sometimes sleight-of-hand. Evening dress is never required. Men are called upon for service for week-day evenings only, on an average of twice a month. Car-fares and other expenses are paid by institutions for which the entertainments are furnished...
Entertainments by "troupes," -the "Vocal Troupe," the "Sleight-of-Hand Troupe" and the "Student Volunteer Orchestra," -have been given in institutions where monotony or suffering makes such diversions peculiarly welcome-the Cambridge Almshouse, the Boston Home for Incurables, the Boston Insane Hospital, the Suffolk County Parental School (truant school), the Lyman school (state reform school), the Lyman school (state reform school), the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, and other institutions...
...weeks, while the annual harvest of D. D. 's, L. L. D. 's etc., is being gathered, it will probably become still more prominent. In this country these titles have degenerated into empty forms with far less meaning than the Prof. we see prefixed to the names of sleight of hand performers, roller-skaters, tight-rope walkers, etc. As President Gilman says, they have become the 'sham and shame' of American colleges. Every so-called university and college, no matter what its standing, the 'University of Cohosh' as well as Johns Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these...