Word: wells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hollis street theatre Mr. and Mrs. Kendall began a two weeks engagement with the presentation of "A Scrap of Paper." The play itself is a comedy adapted from the French and presents many laughable scenes. Throughout Mr. and Mrs. Kendall are admirable and they are well supported by the other artists of the company. Mrs. Kendall herself has a good stage presence and readily adapts herself to the difficult variations of her part. During the latter part of the week the Kendalls will give "The Iron Master...
...next June. It is safe to predict that after their defeat last June, and in view of a possibility of a dual league between Harvard and Yale, the Columbia managers will make extra efforts to turn out a fast crew; and we have found that they can succeed pretty well when they try. We must assume then that the Columbia freshmen will be as skilful in the use of the oar as our men. Haw can Harvard win? There are two respects in which our men can prove themselves superior, viz., material and capacity for work...
...Botanic Garden is open Sundays as well as week days...
...Nathan the Wise, though written in five months, was in one sense Lessing's life work, for it embodied his views on religion and preached that universal brotherhood in which he so firmly believed. Each of his great dramatic works had its own moral to teach. The characters were well sustained, and true to nature. Inestimable, however, as was the value of Lessing's work to the development of German literature, it is for the man's character that we must most admire...
Osborn Hall, which is being erected on the Yale campus, to be used exclusively for recitation rooms, is fast nearing completion, and when finished will be one of the finest buildings belonging to the college, as well as the best equipped building of the kind in the country. The interior finish is almost entirely oak, the hall way and rooms being finished of that work. The instructors' desks of polished oak are all in position and the students' seats are being fast put in. Particular attention has been paid to the heating and ventilation of the building, some new apparatus...