Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should be fortunate enough in some future year to win on this side of the water the leadership in track athletics, which this year belongs so unquestionably to Yale, we shall hope to have the pleasure of competing with one of you as the winner of the Oxford-Cambridge games...
...University Extension Society has had since 1891 the benefit of the leadership of Dr. Edmund J. James of the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Now, after four years of hard labor in the cause, the pressure of other work forces him to resign the office of president of the society. His letter of resignation is a history of the progress of an enterprise whose success has been very gratifying to its founders and to which Dr. James has contributed in no small degree...
...Banjo Club is now making rapid improvement, under the leadership of J. M. Little, Jr., '97. Notwithstanding the fact that the majority of the men are novices, the club already plays with a precision and snap which is unusual at this time of year. Of the three parts, the banjeaurines are the poorest; they lack the expression and softness of touch required. This will no doubt be remedied before the first concert, which takes place at the University Club in Boston on April...
...last two weeks the Mandolin Club has been practicing regularly under the leadership of R. G. Morse '96 and has been improving rapidly. The club has been considerably enlarged since the mid-years, there being now six first mandolins, four second, and four guitars. One more guitar will be taken on if an efficient player can be found. Another innovation which has never before been tried on a 'varsity club will be the introduction of a flageolet. In many of the pieces the viola is not strong enough to bring out the part, but the flageolet with its high register...
Several students interested in music are making an effort to resuscitate the old Brown University brass band under the leadership of F. E. Horton...