Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last year's scrub teams and discussed plans for this year. Nothing final was decided but it is probable that the schedule system will be in general much the same as last year. It is also probable that some advantage will be given to the teams that made a good showing last year in order so far as possible to make it a permanent custom for scrub teams to hold together from year to year...
Constant practice is essential. The youthful speaker should be encouraged by the examples of Webster and Wendell Phillips, but he should never imitate. Quotations too must be avoided. Clearness and conciseness must be sought before decoration. The field for oratory is as wide awake today as ever and the good speaker just as much a power in society...
STUDENTS who ride Bicycles and wish their wheels put in good shape before the season opens up would do well to bring them in now, or send a postal, or leave word and we will call and get the machine and deliver. First class work. 15 years in the Bicycle business. Agent for the Dayton, White, Eagle, Featherstone, Harvard Crimson, and Harvard Special Bicycles...
...lacrosse team has now been practicing about three weeks on Norton's Field. A large number of candidates are trying for the team and the prospects are good for a successful season...
...number of the Lampoon is the first one issued by the '99 board. The most interesting of the editorials deals with the choice of a site for Brooks House. The illustrations in the number are good, the centre page showing what the College Yard would resemble in case the Memorial Society should placard every interesting historical site with a memorial stone. "The Gypsy Moths," a take off on Flandrau's "Butterflies" is rather clever, though the general tendency of these stories is to make a ridiculous combination of words take the place of a real parody on ideas...