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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seems that wearing the caps would be very significant, for if a man had on the cap it would be just as apparent that he was a Senior as it would be if he had on both the cap and gown, and this is the main object of wearing either of them, that a man may wear something which makes him appear a Senior, not for the benefit of other classes but to give the graduating class a more united feeling. Then besides, the gown is a very clumsy thing to wear and is also very hot in warm weather...
...Harvard must either increase its accommodations shortly or stop its growth, now is an excellent time to fix at least on paper the main lines upon which to build in the future. Indeed it is even possible that a well prepared plan might impel an intending benefactor to give to the College the funds needed to properly develop some part of the College grounds, by building avenues and roads and setting up trees and shrubbery, creating in this way suitable building sites. The grading and planting of a quadrangle and its decoration with aisles and walks, and steps and avenues...
...Alger's "The Snapping of the Bow-String" is suggestive in parts of Thomas Hardy. Its rustic coloring, its imaginative interpretation of external nature is quite masterful; only when the story analyses powerful human emotion and its results, is unconvincingness approached. Then it tends either to exaggeration or melodrama. If R. P. Bellow's "The Hoaxing of Truesdale Bynner" is more facile and interesting, as literature it promises less for the writer's future. But both stories have an atmosphere of serious literary intention that the Advocate would do well to cultivate more...
...club as good a training ground as possible. This service the Sophomore Club has thus far well rendered, and the importance of continuing the good work must be recognized. In its contests with the Freshman Club it labors under the disadvantage of having its honorary members who are on either the Forum or the Union debarred from taking part, but notwithstanding this the showing made in the first interclub debate was most creditable. Tonight's trial is the preliminary step toward the second contest and is an opportunity for the Sophomore debaters to show that they intend...
...Forum is now within the range of probabilities. Some months ago committees were appointed by both societies to devise a plan of consolidation. After lengthy consideration this joint committee drew up a report favorable to the scheme, which report provided that the new organization should be named either the "Harvard Union" or the "Harvard University Debating Society...