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About forty men appeared in answer to the call for Glee Club candidates last night. There were many good voices and the club will be greatly strengthened by the addition of some of the new material. If numbers are in any way indicative of enthusiasm over the club a very successful year may be expected. Successful candidates will be announced later. The following is a list of men who tried: F. Farwell, W. H. Reed, F. S. Strauahan. C. Vrooman, J. M. Washburn, M. A. Bartlett, L. A. Burleigh, Herman Oppenheim, D. C. Green, T. F. Allen, Homer Boyen...
...these plans, however, were yet insufficient to answer the great need of the increasing body of students, who want board of the grade of Memorial. Accordingly last fall the plan of the "hotel system," so-called, was proposed for Memorial. Such a system would, if adopted in toto, break down the system of club tables at Memorial, and destroy what many men now consider the pleasantest features of the dining system. It was natural that the students should strongly oppose the plan as then suggested. As radically changed, however, the scheme has everything to recommend it. It will...
...communication with some of his own countrymen who are familiar with the institutions of learning-provided such are in the city. In case there is no general association of students or University Club in the university from which the student comes, a recommendation from the university authorities will answer every purpose...
...answer to telegrams from Mr. Adee and Mr. Camp, we met these gentlemen at Springfield yesterday. They did not come, however, with full power to act for Yale, but suggested that Harvard play two games with Yale this year and one with Princeton, without considering any arrangements for the future. To this we could not consent, but we were willing to modify our proposal so far as to confine it to baseball...
...Drama is a fruitful subject for investigation for its part in French literary history has always been important. If English-speaking nations have been influenced at all by the French, we might therefore suppose the drama to be an important point of contact. The answer is both yes and no. The number of French plays reproduced in England and America has indeed been prodigious, but so boldly have we copied that a mere translation or a slight recasting of the plays has been thought sufficient. The result has been plagiarism, not a gradual and subtle improvement...