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...thing from the old school style of declamation which had its uses some years ago, but which now has lost all hold upon sensible man. What is aimed at in the elocution sections is temperate, exact and adequate presentation, and these are things which it behooves every man to know. How often is the reading of a newspaper article or some paragraph from a book completely unintelligible owing to the wretched presentation of the reader, who has no conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful...
...lecture given by Dr. Sachs last night in Upper Boylston was upon the relation of the vases to the "Cypria," one of the lost epics which supplemented the Homeric poems. We know this poem through quotations which we find in various authors, and by its influence on Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark...
...book for the signatures of those who wish to go to the Junior Class Dinner will be withdrawn today. The dinner will take place on Wednesday evening of next week, and the committee must know by this evening how many men to provide for. It is a pity that out of a class of over two hundred men less than half should possess enough class feeling to urge them to make use of one of the pleasantest opportunities of a man's college life. The class has not been really united in any way since freshman year. Here...
...would like to know the college sentiment in this regard...
...interests of cricket at Harvard. Comparatively few men in college have ever witnessed a cricket match, and the ideas of most men in regard to the game are decidedly vague. Matches enough are played at Longwood, Medford and other places in the vicinity; but only the men who know the game are willing to travel any distance to see it. If matches are instituted at Cambridge, however, there is no doubt that interest in cricket will be greatly increased here...