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...Ding Dong" song, given behind the scenes, at the beginning of the second act. The solos of Baldwin and of Carroll were effectively sung, and enjoyed by all. The strong part of the play, however, lay in the acting of Cushing, Hearst, and Swinscoe. These three gentlemen have an uncommon power of producing comic effect. Their superiority to the other performers was partly due to a careful avoidance, on their part, of all meaningless gesticulation. Swinscoe and Hearst immediately won the favor of the audience by their irresistible humor, and acrobatic movements. Cushing's ballet, in itself a work...
...very soft, which made running difficult. The other distances which the Greeks ran were four hundred yards, and the "long race," which was from a mile and a half to three miles. With such soft ground, the strain on the runners must have been fearful, and it was no uncommon thing for them to faint when they reached the end. No trickery of any kind was allowed, as false starts...
...large class; and that whereas in 1874,60 per cent of the freshmen roomed in the yard, but 38 per cent. room there today The reason for this is, we think, the increasing eagerness with which any room in a college building is sought for. It is not an uncommon thing for a man to keep a room during his entire course, and for him then to hand it down to a friend as a precious legacy. The friend. In turn, leaves it to his friend, who also bequeaths it to a third. Under these circumstances, the freshman has very...
...learning to yodel; then there's the whistling freshman, always at the oldest air he can find, and always on the wrong key: the man who comes in at 2 A. M. from an expensive spree, and makes the halls echo to "Michael Roy," is unpleasant and not uncommon; the man upstairs who is getting up his muscle, and who dreps thirty pound dumbbells on the floor, is another variety. All tend to perfect repose and rest of mind. The janitor making the fires at 4 A. M., the click of the letter box in the early morning...
...students of some colleges entertain their townsmen with a celebration of this kind, we may look with a different face upon the celebrations which are sometimes held in honor of our athletic victories. Yet we are glad to see that these childish exhibitions are becoming more and more uncommon. A few years ago cremations and kindred celebrations were the rule and not the exception at many colleges; now, however, they are decidedly the exception. Brown college was the last to give up this absurd custom. At a meeting of the juniors last week the "majority of the class seemed...