Word: van
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thou Rip Van Winkle of the Yard...
...COMMITTEE, consisting of Messrs. Beale, Williams, Van Benthuysen, Jameson, and Putnam, has been appointed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a legislative branch of the Union for exercise in parliamentary practice. The Committee will hold public meetings to hear arguments for and against the plan; the important arguments of the speakers will be embodied in the report of the Committee...
...BRIGHAM, '79, has kindly consented to sing first tenor on the Glee Club. By his courtesy the Club is much strengthened, and its first concert at Quincy, next Monday evening, cannot fail to be a success. Mr. Van Raalte will probably play a violin solo...
...Jefferson will appear as Bob Acres, in Sheridan's delightful comedy "The Rivals," for the last times to-night and to-morrow. Mr. Jefferson acts the part very well, of course, and it is especially pleasant to see him again in some character besides the familiar Rip Van Winkle. On Monday, Ada Cavendish will appear in a new play, "The Soul of an Actress." Theatre-goers will remember her engagement at the Globe this spring...
...part mocking-birds, - we next see the procession of mediaeval knights, mounted on hobby-horses. Each rider recited his particular speech over and over again, and paid no attention to what any one else said. An aged knight, tastefully dressed in the garb of a scholastic philosopher, led the van. By a happy arrangement of the managers, a corps of Freshmen on ponies appropriately followed at a short interval...