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...wish to show the true Harvard spirit, but there is particular need of care and self restraint when we meet Yale. The feeling then is strong and the crowds are critical. There ought to be men appointed who will use their influence to see that nothing occurs again to mar the good name of the University...
...There is a necessity for its exercise of such supervision and control. - (a) Of schools where all teaching is done in a foreign language as in: (1) Wis. and III; Nation L. 240 (Mar. 20, 1800). - (2) Other Western states. - (b) Of parochial and private schools; Rept. Com. of Educ...
...Pierian Sodality was very wise in its choice of music. None of the pieces were too much beyond his ability. The Grieg selection for strings is a difficult movement for amateur performers, but it was played with a firmness and precision that did not mar its delicacy and well won it an encore. The Dvorak polka was played with good phrasing and finish. In all its selections the Pierian was very successful and played them in a fasihon that shows the result of careful and conscientious training...
...Union to a joint extempore debate, that is one in which the debaters shall make impromptu speeches upon a subject to be announced on the evening of the debate. Such a debate would not only be unique but it would prevent the set speeches which so frequently mar the ordinary debate. It was expected that Col. Higginson would address the Club on April 21 but a note received from him on Tuesday stated that he had been called to Vermont on business on that date and would be unable to address the club until later in the year...
...delay in placing the French Magazines in the Library reading room? The Revue des Deux Mondes arrives promptly, but the others are lamentably late. For example the last number of the Revue Encyclopedique that is now in the reading room is that for Feb. 15: the number for Mar. 15 is due. Such delay is certainly avoidable; for even the Nouvelle Revue, a persistently late magazine, reaches Boston regularly at least a week before we have it here. Cannot such an abuse, detracting as it does from the interest and usefulness of these periodicals, be remedied...