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...study of dramatic expression and desire a higher course of training than that afforded by the elementary courses in elocution, to recognize and restore the club to its old position. What the club needs is an infusion of new blood into its veins, new members who will take a live interest in its success, and maintain its old reputation for activity A meeting of the old members should be called at once, a reorganization should be effected, and new members interested in dramatic study, should be admitted to membership. If this is done we are confident of a restoration...
...collegiate course. He was prepared for a business career, but was not successful. After spending a few years in South Carolina, he returned to Boston, and went into the flour trade under the firm name of Apthorp & Greenleaf. The firm failed in 1830, whereupon the young Greenleaf went to live with his father in the town of Quincy. He never entered business to any great extent again, but lived a very quiet life, rarely mingling in society, but spending his time in study and in the cultivation of his garden. He was very poor, but his father and his aunt...
...Christmas recess as short as possible, and fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which Christmas happened to come. Our recess is from four to twelve days shorter than with the majority of the institutions for higher education in this country. Those of us who live west of Chicago cannot possibly get home by Christmas day unless we start before college closes, nor can we get back to Cambridge in time for the opening of college exercises, unless we start several days before New Year's. It seems to me that the time has come...
...upon the face of the earth. Every member of the University should feel called upon to see to it that the methods of his Alma Mater shall prove successful. This appeal, however, is directed more particularly to the members of the Law School. They, many of them at least, live among us and enjoy all the privileges which are open to the members of the college, the only reason why they do not attend Chapel is without question because the custom has never been instituted. But now that the petty restrictions of compulsory attendance at Appleton Chapel have been rescinded...
...generous attempts of some of our instructors to mitigate the hardships of our lack of Thanksgiving recess, by allowing cuts on the two succeeding days, meets with the heartfelt gratitude of the men thus benefitted. There is some consideration shown in this for those who do not live within horse-car distances of the college and who do not have opportunities of fleeing to the bosom of their families every few days. That a large number of men are compelled by their home ties to break the regulations of the faulty ought to bring that body to change its position...