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...mismanagement or bad generalship that each year when the time arrives for the most important University games to be played, when reputation for the College is to be made, the Harvard players are crippled and of little or no avail? Why is it necessary to use up the team in practice and by contests with unimportant teams just before the great games of the year? Of course I realize that thorough and systematic hard practice is necessary, but there is a limit to human endurance, and some discretion should be used, that the men shall be serviceable when the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 11/10/1896 | See Source »

...given little attention to detail in the matter of delivery when they were preparing. A skillful instructor in elocution was ready and anxious to help them, but either because they thought themselves sufficiently prepared, or because they did not care to give the time, the debaters neglected to avail themselves of his assistance, and as a result their form was not good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 5/5/1896 | See Source »

...given little attention to detail in the matter of delivery when they were preparing. A skillful instructor in elocution was ready and anxious to help them, but either because they thought themselves sufficiently prepared or because they did not care to give the time, the debaters neglected to avail themselves of his assistance, and as a result their form was not good. While Yale was all stirred up over the approaching contest; while debates were being held every other night to which hundreds of undergraduates went and applauded the speakers; what were we doing at Harvard? Absolutely nothing. Many students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/4/1896 | See Source »

...competition is open to all members of the University, and it is urged that men who intend to try for the Harvard-Yale debate avail themselves of this opportunity for preliminary practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 2/14/1896 | See Source »

...guilty of such offenses has doubtless in most cases passed the point where remonstrance, or representation of his conduct in its true light, could be of any avail. He would still, however, be influenced by the dread of detection and consequent summary punishment. We would urge that measures be taken to make that dread a very living one. If it were generally understood that not only the various library officials, but the students themselves, were sharply on the watch for violations of privilege, and would do their utmost to trace all concealed books to the responsible parties, the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1896 | See Source »

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