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...important chang in the list of events this year which seems likely to make the meeting more interesting. Throwing the baseball will be dropped out and the one mile run substituted. The former event has always proved tedious and slow and the mile run will tend to enliven things. It seems probable that first place will go to Worcester High. This school had no trouble in winning the indoor winter meeting, its nearest competitor being Worcester Academy. Roxbury Latin is strong in the field events and promises to make a good bid for second place. In the other schools...
...Harvard was never better attested than yesterday afternoon at his address on the "Art of Extemporary Speaking." Despite the stormy weather standing room only was to be had in Sever 11, and the large audience gave the speaker a most enthusiastic welcome. Apt illustrations and witty anecdotes served to enliven the "warnings and rules." Dr. Hale said, prepare yourself carefully before hand on what you are going to say but don't memorize. Don't try to win the sympathy of the audience by talking about yourself. Know what you are going to say and don't allow the sympathy...
...fall class races will be rowed this afternoon at 4 o'clock, and, as this is a new departure on the part of the University Boat Club, it is hoped that the whole college will show its appreciation of the club's enterprise and enliven the race by its presence...
...classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather than to stimulate and enliven an interest in religion. But there is good ground for a belief that compulsion tends to repel students who are not Christians and to harden their hearts...
...professors of old; some of them are goody's chairs, rickety with many years of window-washing; some are quaintly covered with the initials of great men gone before, and all are on their last two or three legs. These chairs give rise to many amusing incidents which enliven the otherwise weary round of lecture-going. Now and then they give way all at once like the "famous one horse shay," sending the heels of the occupant high in the air and giving his cerebral system a violent shock. Some of them go to pieces, part by part, like...