Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This evening the annual competition for the Boylston prizes in declamation occurs in Sanders Theatre, and judging from the ability of the speakers, and the nature of the selections, a very interesting contest may be expected. The reproach is often made against Harvard and other colleges that the art of public speaking so indispensable to the American citizen, is shamefully neglected; but the custom of holding prize declamations frees Harvard to a certain extent from this reproach. The competition is always close, while the interest taken by the students at large shows that the importance of this branch of education...
There will be an important meeting of the Harvard Art Club this evening, at 7.30 o'clock, for election of offices for the coming year. Full attendance requested...
...through and through as he is, he would lack symmetry if not developed also on the athletic side. Bowdoin students will find in him, should he become their president, an enthusiastic sympathiser in their sports, for he is a good base ball player and an adept in the manly art of self defence. It may be remarked in passing that it is a little singular that Mr. Hyde should be the second man in his Andover class of '82 to be called to a college presidency...
...important subjects in educational matters of the day. But our call for expressions of opinion has met with a very unsatisfactory response. One of our correspondents, in the CRIMSON for March 29 exclaims: "Why publish disquisitions in your columns on the evils of cribbing and the status of that art at Harvard? Why drag this disgusting subject to the light, and care fully analyze it and pick it to pieces, any more than the subject of thievery or drunkenness?" With this writer we have no sympathy. We would ask him, what special bearing the subject of thievery or drunkenness...
...ordinary run of newspaper illustrations has but little interest for college readers - or any other readers, for that matter - but the great effort of Boston's leading art journal, the Globe, yesterday morning, was received with all due appreciation by the undergraduates of Harvard, and must have created quite a sensation in the outside world. Perhaps the favor with which this venture was received may be shown best by the fact that over 500 extra copies of the "Globe" were sold yesterday in Cambridge. But really, this article opens up quite a field for enterprise. It could easily be "worked...