Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recently a rather curious proceeding has been taking place. A performance of "Young Mrs. Winthrop" by a Madison Square Campany has been advertised to take place at Union Hall in that town, a building hitherto restricted to the accommodation of the most strictly virtuous of Star lecture courses and Swiss Bell-Ringers. Upon this, three of the intelligent clergymen of the classic 'Port have taken it upon themselves to denounce in scathing terms this performance in particular, and the theatre in general. The Transcript thereupon expresses its surprise that such a proceeding could ever occur in a "University City...
...Gray, in company with Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, reviews, in the April number of the American Journal of Science, Dr. Candolle's "Origin of Cultivated Plants," with the result of claiming more indigenous plants for America than the Swiss botanist allows. A second article is promised in the next number...
...Swiss Family Robinson," by Owen Wister, which many will remember as a very bright travestry in the Lampoon last year, has been published in a neat form by Mr. Sever. The local hits are very clever, and the little work well deserves a place as an odd piece of literary bric-a-brac in every student's library...
...Nation thinks that "Owen Wister's 'The New Swiss Family Robinson' (Cambridge : C. W. Sever) hits the mark as a satire, but for sustained humor it suffers by comparison with Rollo's Cambridge adventures, that earlier trophy of the Harvard Lampoon. On the other hand, 'College Cuts' (White & Stokes), chosen from the Columbia Spectator, a college paper with a humorous corner or corners, compares well with the larger and more heterogeneous collection of designs from the Lampoon. There is more chic and a higher average quality in the drawing. Politics are altogether eschewed in favor of collegiate and social topics...
...REED, '81, read in Hist. 6 a well-written and studied thesis on the campaigns of Charles the Bold against the Swiss...