Word: acte
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It seems to be an act of gross injustice that English VI is to be omitted next year. Possibly there may be good reasons for such action on the part of our "guardians," but if so we should at least be allowed to know what they are. Here is the present junior class cut off from all chance of taking such a course, - a course which from its usefulness has become very popular. We have been waiting patiently till we should become seniors, in order that we might have the manifest advantage of just such instruction...
...England Meteorological Society has posted notices asking for young men who wish to act as weather observers during the coming summer. This work is to be carried on through out New England in connection with the United States signal service...
Williams plays Brown to-day at Providence. Grant will act as umpire...
...from marked. This is simply an attack upon the methods of instruction here pursued. In reply to such an attack, we can only say that the present method, while differing widely from the instruction which presents as its highest ideal a clarion cry and the famous "windmill act," is surely based upon the most fundamental rules of good speaking. Gentlemanly and dignified bearing, and full control of the vocal powers are certainly aims sufficiently elevated for even an elocutionist of the old school...
...officers of the Phi Beta Kappa from '87 are as follows. Secretary, G. P. Furber; first marshal, S. B. Stanton; second marshal, F. C. Southworth. These three officers will act as dinner committee...