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Through the kindness of Mr. Heinrich Conried of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, members of the Irving Place Theatre company will give a performance for the benefit of the Germanic Museum at the Colonial Theatre, Boston, on February 27, the silver wedding anniversary of the German Kaiser. Although it has not been definitely decided, it is probable that "Wilhelm Tell" will be the play presented. The sale of tickets for the performance will be announced later. The following committee is in charge of the play: C. E. Ware '06, chairman...
...Teachers' Endowment Fund amounting to $2,339,110.08, which has been raised through the efforts and under the leadership of Bishop William Lawrence '71, will benefit the teachers whose instruction is given to the students of Harvard College; the Lawrence Scientific School, and the Graduate School...
...benefit of men engaged in the various winter sports, and for those who contemplate taking exercise in some organized athletic activity, the following summary of the beginning of work after the Christmas recess has been made...
From this physical standpoint, then, our conclusion is that the very nature of the present game of football prevents nineteenths of the students of America colleges from participating in it, so that it can be of no physical benefit to then. They cannot undergo a course of training for football that excludes them from all other activities, study included, for a quarter of the whole college year, and they dare not play at all without such training, or they expose themselves to physical danger to the extent of foolhardiness...
...McEwen made the last speech of the debate. We have been told, he said, that football is a benefit because it improves men by submitting them to temptation. This is a remarkable argument. Our opponents have laid great stress on character, but in the definition of this term they have been very indefinite. Character has improved as rapidly throughout the United States as in the college world alone. We are discussing the game of football not the men in the stands. We affirm that no other contest, as a contest, has so many evils as football. Our opponents talk about...