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...outcome will be awaited with interest The atmosphere of the Latin quarter pervades the whole of the first two acts. The third act shows a scene in Drury Lane Theatre, with a distant view of the stage, where may be seen Trilby and the orchestra leader. The tumult aroused by her failure to sing and the subsequent death of Svengali end this act. The fourth act depicts the tragic death of Trilby...
...prophet and a man of beautiful humility of life, stands out from the material thinkers of his time. His religious interest was not passive; it was of the critical, "mystical" kind which teaches that if one learns to see God one sees through the vanities of worldliness; that the tumult of the soul comes from loving things not immertal...
...columns of one of our city journals, which has over and over again devoted half a page to minute and brutal accounts of a prize fight, an indignant paragraph on the "barbarism" and "run-a-muck culture" of the Harvard-Princeton game. It declares: "The fierce tumult of young passins, the battered features, the contused limbs, the broken bones, the sprains and welts, and gashes, and bloodstains that made the record of last Saturday's football contest over at Cambridge are enough to fill the thoughts of one who reads them with mingled horror and disgust." Doubtless it would...
...Trafford was escorted to the chair, and was about to proceed in his executive duties when a tumult was heard at the door, and a body of upper-classmen made a vigorous rush into the hall. After this stampede had ceased a number of excited young gentlemen endeavored to nominate candidates for the vice-presidency, and finally Mr. John Balch, of the Roxbury Latin School, was elected to the position, his adherants being materially aided by a strong delegation of sophomores seated at the back of the hall. A fresh delegation of sophomores now made their appearance at the door...
...discouraged, the men counter-marched, steadily keeping up the refrain of "Yale men say," and disbanded in front of Holyoke. A rush was made for the yard, where singing and cheering was started, interrupted by occasional calls for a "bonfire." No bonfire was forthcoming, however, and the tumult gradually subsided, until at 1.30, the hour of going to press, the yard had become quiet and almost deserted...