Word: fours
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call the attention of the members of '98 to their subscriptions to the Class Fund. Very few subscriptions indeed were received last week and the average subscription to date forces us to believe that the Fund will fall far below the required amount. From the entire class of over four hundred men, only eight-four have subscribed at all. Unless the members of the class respond more heartily to the appeal, '98 will have the smallest fund subscribed in recent years and consequently the class will not receive as great benefit from the fund as could be desired. We, therefore...
Taken as a whole it seems better calculated to pick the best men with fairness and accuracy than the old method. Under the system which has heretofore been the general rule, it is extremely hard for the judges to select the best four out of a large number of five minute speakers. Then again a five minute speech in offering little opportunity for rebuttal does not furnish a true criterion of argumentative power. By providing for more than one preliminary trial if the number of contestants is large, the new regulations insure adequate trial to every promising debater...
...little unfortunate, however, that a very few can do much towards counteracting the consideration which the rest of their class-mates are willing to give. For example, about half a dozen men in the first page of engravings, one on the second, three on the third, and four on the fourth page, through indifference, neglect, or other unknown cause, are serving as an antidote to the prompt attention which over one hundred other Seniors gave. As the "other unknown causes" might include some such substantial one as sickness, the committee refrains for the present from publishing lists. Any Seniors...
...were dropped from the 'Varsity boat house yesterday and the following men came out for the Weld: Tilton, Glidden, Kernan, Palmer, Saltonstall, Emery. The Weld squad has been reduced and now contains about twenty-eight men, who will continue to row for some time in three eights and a four-oar. This material should give new stimulus to the crews and push them ahead faster than they have hitherto been able to go, retarded as they were by the quantity of absolutely raw material...
...Four-Stroke, Bliss; 3, Chadbourne; 2, Churchill; bow, Mallinchrodt...