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...Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Club has decided to produce William Makepeace Thackeray's "The Rose and the Ring" at the end of this term. Another University Club, the Footlight Dramatics Club, is contenting itself with promoting an all night Ball and Cabaret Entertainment. This is arousing great undergraduate interest, though naturally the University authorities do not regard it with any favour...
...librarian of the Astor Library, in New York City, writing to an officer of the Boston Public Library on books and tastes of the day, bewailed the fact that "Our young readers want nothing but trash--such as Dickens and Thackeray. "Vanity Fair", "Pendennis", "The Newcomes", and "Esmond", had already been published; "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", and "Nicholas Nickleby", to mention but a few of the illustrious list, had appeared some time before. A hungry myriad of readers was clamoring for more "trash...
...Today Thackeray's position is comparatively secure and Dickens is still required by English courses--the final test of true greatness; but of contemporaries one never can tell. The sage Dr. Johnson refused to give a line of Richardson for all Fielding's novels. Posterity disagrees, although O. Henry is far more widely read at present than Stevenson in complete contradiction to the views of critics of their day, it is still impossible to forecast which will be required in English...
...occupied in the pursuit of parchment letters to add to our names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty-one a boy is an ass; the sooner we can resume our high ambition of becoming great and useful men and "shaking a loose and happy leg as sixty." A critic in New York declares the life of the average college man to be largely the result...
...necessary for men who intend to be present to arrive promptly. Although the meeting is intended primarily for Freshmen, who will be admitted whether they are members of the Union or not, Union members may attend after the Freshmen have been seated. Professor Copeland will read selections from Thackeray, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock...