Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recommended the formation of an intercollegiate oratorical association. While I do not consider this recommendation suited to the requirements of Harvard, in view of the excellent instruction in elocution at present furnished to the students, yet I do believe that a higher educated power of oratory is of no mean importance. Such a society as the Shakspere club is well able to fill any want of the students which is not met by the regular instruction, if it is extensive enough in its scope to excite an interest in its work and lead the students to give greater attention...
...last year can hardly be called that. The college did not realize the depth of the change which should have been made. Since then public opinion and college opinion have changed for the better, the circumstances themselves have changed. A failure then under those circumstances, does not necessarily mean another failure now under the existing circumstances. We ask the committee to post pone action in the matter until after the convention. We appreciate our danger and will do all we can to avert it. We only demand a fair chance, and slight delay which we ask does not seem...
...become tiresome. All the signs can be read in the photograph as clearly as in the original, and snob. is forever sending the pictures to his fair friends, who wonder what on earth the sign of "Boarders Wanted," "Hair cut and shave, 50 ets.," or "Reserved for Ladies," can mean. I will say nothing about the uses of a camera during the summer, they are too obvious to mention; but if any one will call at my room I can show him photographs of all my summer "mashes," and few college men can do that...
...should not mind so much, -we are used to it; -but when there is a contradiction between theory and practice from every point of view, then objection mist be raised. Of all things, we have a right to demand that, if the motto of the college, Christo et Ecclesiae, mean anything, it should not come to be the common scoff and fun if has been made. It can be only a mockery when it looks down from the stained-glass windows of the chapel, on men who have been forced into prayers against their will...
...opinion that a light, active crew, if the men are all strong and healthy, can be made as effective as a heavy crew. In this opinion he is supported by the actual tests and measurements of Dr. Sargent. It is found that the heaviest men are by no means the strongest. This statement however, does not mean that men of 190 lbs., fully developed and able to handle their own weight would not be more desirable for the crew than lighter men, but mere weight ought not be sufficient to insure a man's position in the boat. The tendency...