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...Seymour. The chief weakness of the company was in enunciation. Mr. Brown, a very dragonfly dragon, spoke with excellent distinctness, and so for the most part did Mr. Faweett as the King. Mr. Leach as the King of Sorcha, and Mr. Wardner as Taig, the false claimant. But the enunciation of the others was at times bad. The effect of many good lines was spoiled because the speakers did not get them over the footlights...
...considering each candidate's fitness. No more reliable testimony is available than the academic grades made by the student, and in fact the chief exercise of the society's right of selection is the effort to standardize the sets of grades under consideration, and in every way possible to claimant all unfairness arising from a merely quantitative estimate of marks...
...year has made the hearts of Cornellians beat high with hope and has drawn more than usual attention from the outside world to the Cornell crew. If Oxford or Cambridge send an eight to America in seems hardly possible that the championship can be decided without considering the Western claimant for the honor. A rumor is indeed current that neither Oxford nor Cambridge will row Harvard or Yale until one of the latter has defeated Cornell...
...substitute for the hydraulics, has been considerably improved this season. Last year, owing to the peculiar construction of the tank, the water would accumulate in one end after a few strokes, and it was impossible to row more than thirty strokes without stopping. An attempt has been made to claimant this difficulty by beveling the bottom in the corners of the tank near the bow of the boat and by erecting washboards near them. By means of these it is expected that the water will form two continuous currents-one on each side of the boat-instead of only...