Word: may
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Umpire: J. G. Sumner. Date, Cambridge, May...
...object of these words is not to find fault with the work of this year, but to show what another year may be made to bring forth. Mr. Child is beyond doubt in the right about the elocution question; but if he would make it clearly understood that good reading is a desideratum in his classes, and if the students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading...
...complain, as that system is said to be "absolutely infallible." However, when we hear of a man whose mark was something like minus 18 on the mid-years, rated, on a subsequent consultation of the "curve," at nearly plus 40, we begin to fear that even equations and curves may err. We trust other instructors, seeing that the curve is for once wrong, will be led to overlook their mid-year calculations, and perhaps make a similar pleasing correction...
...persons entertain, that there will be a terrible crowd at all the exercises, seems to be unfounded. It is not likely that the graduating classes of the Bussey Institution and of the Dental School will flock to Cambridge in overwhelming numbers, and should large delegations come to Cambridge, they may be certain that the Yard will be large enough for them...
...reach New Haven in time to see the game. By all means let the Harvard men keep together on the grounds, and, if possible, persuade the Nine, by their hearty applause, that they are playing on Holmes Field, and not in a strange land. However good intention an audience may have, it is always hard to recognize the fine points in an opponent's game. The men who go to New Haven to-morrow should mass round a crimson flag, and shout themselves hoarse, if necessary...