Just from opera,
Puritani, with Ellie and Mrs. Georgey Peters and Dr. Carroll. Little Patti, the
new prima donna, made a brilliant success.3 Her voice is fresh, but
wants volume and expression as yet; vocalization perfect. . . .
Columbia College
meeting at two p.m. Resolved to appropriate the President’s house and Professor
Joy’s to College purposes, turn them into lecture rooms, and so forth. A good
move. It is contemplated to build a new house for the President on Forty-ninth
Street, which I think questionable.
3 Adelina Patti, now about to enter her
eighteenth year, had made her operatic debut in New York in 1859.
4 Fraternities were well planted at Columbia.
Alpha Delta Phi had been chartered there in 1836, and three other fraternity
chapters had been organized in the 1840’s. Francis Henry Weeks took his degree
at Williams College in 1864.
SOURCE: Allan Nevins
and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. 3, p. 6-7
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