Word: staging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Returns from the class of '86 come in occasionially. One member is on the stage and another lately heard from who was a prominent society man, is working for two dollars a week in a brokers office. Sic itur ad astra...
...that which at Oxford and Cambridge is almost an annual institution, and one which is entered upon with as much zest and enthusiasm as the boat race on the Thames. We trust that the spirit which has promted the University of Pennsylvania to put the "Archarnians" on the stage, merely lies dormant here, to awake at some future date refreshed and invigorated for its long rest, and shine with greater lustre than ever before. Meanwhile the students of the University of Pennsylvania have our best wishes for a complete success of their endeavor...
...been lifted up above the drudgery of every-day work and been shown the true great meaning of the whole in its relation with the outside world. We all feel an inspiration to attack the work with new vigor, when we know that such men as were on the stage in Sanders on Monday have all been in our places and sympathize with us. If Lowell and Holmes, and Bancroft, have been through our experiences, have lived in the very rooms of some of us, there must be something in this college life worth living for after...
...audience remained seated and Professor Norton knowing the evident wish of all present again ascended the stage and made a short speech of thanks to Dr. Creighton. "It is a great pleasure," he said, for the oldest of American Universities to be connected as Dr. Creighton has shown us with the oldest of the universities of England and the world. It gives an added dignity to our short years to feel that they are thus connected with the universities to which civilization owes so much. It is a pleasure to know that English blood flows in the veins of those...
...Stage Coach...