Word: staging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many schools have been established with the end in view of fitting aspirants for the stage, but, under their training, it is only by talent and years of assiduous toil that a pupil is prepared to appear before a critical audience and win applause and fame. It has remained for our own university to solve all doubts, and found a school in which the dull and talented alike are fitted in a week, sometimes even less, for exalted positions on the stage. Of the peculiar fitness of Boston for a debut, on account of its well known "cultured" audiences, nothing...
Nightly, to one seated in the theatre, a wondrous spectacle is presented, and a spectacle, too, that would amply repay the curious any trouble of witnessing. Whenever the panorama of beauty and talent is on the stage, soloists sink into insignificance; chorus and music are alike forgotten, and the attention of every one is fixed on what are generally supposed to be the minor parts of an opera, but are so no longer. No; a revolution has taken place, and hereafter, thanks to the tender watchfulness of Harvard, the "supe" will be the great attraction. The examples of the success...
...current odds on the English 'Varsity boat race that may be quoted at this early stage rarely represent the comparative merits of the crews. "Six to four an Oxford" is the cry, but a visit to Ely will find the Cantabs very well pleased with their prospects. It is not too much to say that many are decidedly "sweet" on the crew. - [N. Y. Herald...
...question naturally arises as to who must suffer. The choice lies between the graduates and the freshmen. But to exclude the former would be a lifelong matter, as a man always remains a graduate when once he has attained that position, while a freshman passes usually through that stage in a year; so that it seems better for the freshmen to yield. The proviso can be made that in case they win the Yale game the upper class men are willing to suffer the additional discomfort of the crowding at the tree that will come from their presence there...
...daylight came. A large cannon which the students had drawn from West Lebanon, a distance of four miles, during the night, was standing near Reed Hall. On Sunday evening it was taken home by the authorities, but before morning found its way here again and on to the chapel stage. What the final disposition of this flying artillery will be is unknown...