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...exercises of that day are being much more carefully planned this year than ever before. They are sure to be appropriate, and it needs no more to say that they will be full of interest and significance to Harvard men. Graduates and undergraduates alike will be eager to avail themselves of the opportunity which the committee offers to secure seats in advance. Those who trust to chance for finding a place unoccupied in in the theatre are likely to fare but poorly. The seats will early be in very great demand...
...were various excellent reasons, but had it seemed utterly groundless it should yet have been granted out of respect to those who made it. Repeatedly, after the chairman of the Athletic Committee had spoken, the captain and manager of the freshman nine remonstrated with the class, but wholly without avail. Ninety-seven, so far from setting the example of compliance, by their own firing very effectively spurred the freshmen on to a lack of restraint which was ungracious in the extreme. That their behavior may have the effect of removing all class games to Soldiers Field is an argument against...
...commendation of the classes in reading and speaking which are being formed by Mr. Copeland. In his various lectures, Mr. Copeland has shown himself well skilled in what he now offers to teach to others. The opportunity for profiting by his assistance is one of which many should avail themselves...
...welcome which the committee has for newcomers is unfeigned. It can help them, and is eager to do so. We advise new students to avail themselves of the committee's, offers without hesitation...
...more than can be supplied by the clocution classes of a college. Not that there is anything to be said against voice culture, though many men of great power have entirely ruined their effectiveness by the attempt to cultivate some mannerism. It is not this which is of avail in public speaking. There is necessity rather for physical strength, for readiness, determination, and courage, in so far as these can be trained. Without these, be the voice as fine as it may, the speech will yet lose its effect...