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...than came up to expectations and Wagner's "March from Tannhauser" was particularly well executed. The Banjo and Mandolin Clubs showed the result of faithful persevering work and their performance was all the more creditable when one considered that the men have not had the usual Christmas trip to look forward...
...does not look for a restoration of this instruction in the schools for some time to come, however, and would supply the deficiency by more personal contact between the landed families of high standing and the peasants who live around them. In this way, M. de Mauny-Talvande thinks, a knowledge of moral principles for their own sake would be instilled into the minds of the peasants...
...Observatory and its dependant stations. Yet there is probably not a department of the work of which the average student at Harvard is more thoroughly ignorant. Once a year for a limited period the members of the senior class are permitted to go to the observatory and have a look through the telescope, and that gives them very nearly all the information they get during their four years, of the work of the department. In nearly every other department of the University public lectures are occasionally given or meetings held at which the work is described or discussed. Why should...
...committee at present aspire to meet the expressed wish that the portrait be painted by Sargent, so that it may be a high-grade work of art, fit for our building. We look upon Mr. Choate as perhaps the most representative of the champions of our club in New York, at least the oldest, and would like to have a better portrait of him than is possessed by the Union League, the Bar Association, or any other organization over which he has presided. We hope for such a portrait of Mr. Choate as the Players' Club has of Edwin Booth...
...welfare. The winning spirit was shown and if it is kept up, as there is every reason to expect that it will be, it is sure to bring its reward sooner or later. Those who are inclined fallaciously to assume a connection between this and other defeats, and to look gloomily on the future,- if there are any such-are as unworthy of being Harvard men as they are devoid of every essential quality of sportsmen...