Word: final
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entered as competitors for the Boylston Prizes for elocution. This is rather a smaller number, in proportion to the size of the classes, than has entered in former years. A preliminary trial will be held on Saturday, May 7, at which candidates will be chosen to speak in the final public competition on Thursday, May 12. The speeches, selections from English, Greek or Latin authors, must be approved by Professor Hill. He will be in Sever 1 on Friday afternoon at 4.30, for that purpose. It is desirable that men should have their selections made by that time...
...distinctly class competition being entirely unrestricted outside club organization, the coming debate promises to arouse unusual interest from the preliminary trials till the final decision...
...final rehearsal of "The Shoemaker's Holiday" was held yesterday afternoon in the Pi Eta Theatre. The understudies whom it has been necessary to introduce played their parts thoroughly satisfactorily. None of the leading parts are affected by the call for volunteers...
...athletic teams are in rather an unsettled state at present. Yet never we believe, has there been a spring in the history of the College when there were brighter prospects for fair success in every branch than at present. Although the preparatory period has been unusually prolonged and the final picking of the various teams somewhat delayed, still some idea of their capabilities may be gotten from their work thus...
...every mental resource, and to exercise all the manly qualities which are demanded in the athlete, these are surely worth while in themselves independent of victory or defeat. Harvard has had many captains who have done these things, but few who have done them as disinterestedly as Goodrich. His final act of self effacement, however necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches, can but add to the respect which is felt for him. An undergraduate seldom has a harder thing to do. Resignation before success, setting aside the chance so cagerly looked forward to, of making...