Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announced that the executive committee had procured some grounds in Watertown with ample room for six good holes and for some enlargement in future. It was voted that the committee should have the links laid out immediately. It was also voted that the dues until January, 1898, should be five dollars. It is necessary that all members should pay their dues as soon as possible in order to raise funds to put the links in condition...
...vital point for Harvard debating now is not how we beat Yale and yet lost the debate, but why we were beaten. It matters comparatively little what we may at length decide the true reason to have been. It may be that our speakers for once forgot the good old Harvard principle of "being able to take your opnent's side and handle it better than he can himself." It may be that in our preparation we did not give sufficient attention to rebuttal. But to whatever reason we may ascribe our failure, we have profited nothing by the lesson...
...respects very satisfactory. By far the most encouraging thing about it was that fifty-two men spoke, more than have spoken at any previous trial debate held in the University and nearly twice as many as spoke at the Freshman trials last year. The quality of the speaking was good, but there were no remarkably strong speeches, probably owing to the fact that the time was limited to three minutes...
...tendency to try to cover altogether too much ground. Aside from this, the most noticeable fault was a general crudeness in form. Very few men spoke directly and forcibly at their audience and many had bad mannerisms. It should be said, however, that the men had in general a good flow of language and spoke entirely without notes...
...forthcoming number of the Advocate contains a large variety of on the whole interesting matter. Decidedly the best things in the number are "Roundeles upon Occasions," which have a good deal of imagination and flow, by Robert J. Collier; and "The Special Officer of Station Two," by G. H. Scull. Several shorter bits of verse are rather commonplace and insignificant. "The Teller of Tales," by R. T. Fisher begins very well but leads up to nothing and falls flat. The remaining articles are: Editorials, "Come and Gone," "Sympathy," by F. K. Knowles; College Kodaks, "My Neighbor," by H. M. Adams...