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...annual spring theatricals of the Hasty Pudding Club will be, as already announced, a three act comic opera, entitled "Branglebrink, or a Weary Wanderer's Woeful Wooing." The Libretto is by Ralph Milbourne Townsend '96, and the music by Frank Bruce Whittemore '96, Robert Gorham Morse '96, and John Alden Carpenter...
...CRIMSON shows its woeful ignorance by suggesting that the Glee club employ a "professional trainer" As a matter of fact the Glee club has employed a "professional trainer" and does not propose to cease doing...
...childish as he grows up; but this notion ought not to be fostered by the school system itself. The vast majority of men in college who are not blind to their own faults and deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight. In this point as in all other matters, we have a great deal to learn from the Germans. There this study is taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last two years are devoted to other subjects. In the preliminary...
...knowledge of spherical trigonometry and differential calculus is required. But it is not the mathematical technicalities which we want, but such a general knowledge of the science as every high school graduate, who is not fitting for college, is obliged to have before he can get his diploma. Woeful ignorance of the commonest branches of learning has ever been a reproach to college students. The narrow line of studies which they must pursue in order to secure admission to college is the cause of it. Latin, Greek, and Mathematics take up all of their time; the rudiments of the principal...
...desired to take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston, one Saturday night, only to behold with horror the worst...