Word: instructive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Preliminary spring practice for the battery candidates of the University baseball team will start this afternoon at the Hemenway Gymnasium. Coach Sexton will be there at 3 o'clock to instruct the candidates in the use of the chest weights. This work will occur daily until practice in the Cage commences on February 17, and is a part of the drill from which no candidate will be excused, unless by permission of either the captain or coach...
...those Freshmen who have not yet opened their eyes and become acquainted with the institutions and traditions of the community in which they live, or who were too preoccupied with their own little affairs to answer the call of fame, when the Lampoon so generously opened its doors to instruct its new candidates in the ways of the famous Harvard Comic Paper...
...give its first public performance of Nicholas Udall's "Ralph Roister Doister". This play, surviving in one copy owned by Eton College, is usually regarded as our first English comedy in the sense that people and manners English and not foreign are depicted wholly for amusement and not to instruct or to moralize. It was written for the Eton or Westminister School boys to act, for Udall was successively master in both schools. It derives its inspiration from Latin comedy, but as a whole is original and English...
...churches and Sunday schools want men to speak on travel, to tell stories, and to read selections. The chances of this sort offer a golden opportunity to College men to learn to stand squarely before an audience and say what they want to say. They are called upon to instruct and amuse, and are often forced to speak extemporaneously. The opportunity is great for a good work to be done in a short time by men up to whom the boys of the slums will look for ideals and advice...
...more of reading matter. Mr. Hagedorn forcibly intimates that the CRIMSON would do well to rely less on the "average intelligence" of its reporters, and call into play more of that "exceptional literary ability," which they at present held to be superfluous, -- and which the Monthly can doubtless instruct them how to procure. Of Mr. Westcott's charge of illiberal dealing with correspondents it is impossible to judge without further information...