Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to protest against such crybaby language from a Harvard graduate. The statement is not true, and even if it were, whining about it would only make people doubt its truth. Such statements, we venture to say, misrepresent the sentiment of the University, and the publication of them will give the University a very unenviable and undeserved reputation...
...character of Hamlet itself was first interpreted to our knowledge by Burbage, who could scarcely have been very pleasing, for we are told that he was fat and scant of breath. The next great Hamlets of the past that we know anything of are Betterton, Garrick and Kemble; but even though we have much to tell us how these actors looked and how they played their parts, we cannot get a very distinct impression of their impersonations. Actors are like the visions in Macbeth who "come like shadows, so depart." The best criticism n acting that has come down...
...accomplished, but football and its abuses are found to be inseparable, the committee, we are told, says the game must go. In this position the committee has the hearty support of every lover of football. A fair trial is what is asked. It is hard to believe that even the Faculty intends, against the expressed conviction of its able Committee on Athletics, to deny the game this right. If, however, as seems to be the case, the Faculty intends to do this injustice, it behooves undergraduates to forget for a time the worth of a chastened spirit, and, conscious...
Attention is especially called to the annual dinner of the main Latin School Association, which consists of all graduates of the school, to be held Friday, March 29, at the Parker House. Probably few, even among graduates of the school, know how many prominent Boston men have attended the Latin School, or how notable an event the annual dinner is becoming. All who can attend should send their names today to G. R. Nutter, 220 Devonshire, Boston...
Beyond the suggestion of resemblance to the Amherst Senate, and the statement that these conferences are an entirely new thing at Harvard, there is nothing in the above that can justly be called absolute falsehood; and even these two sentences appear merely harmless mis-statements, written in no spirit that deserves in the least degree the censure of the entire University...