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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first meeting of the Bicycle club was held Wednesday evening. The following men were elected members: Active, Hill '90, Evans '90, Henderson '91, Walker, '91, Bell '92, Latham '92, Damon '92 Pierce '93, Perot S, S.; associate, Onorato, L. S., Chase '90, Little '91, Follansbee '92, Lewis '92, Nichols '92. Thompson '92. It was voted to begin the hare and hounds runs in the near future. All members of the university wishing to join the club either as an active or associate members are requested to send their names to the secretary or to 14 Holworthy...
Oratory is scarcely considered practical in our day and we have comparatively few men of marked rhetorical ability. The reverse was the case in Greece, where oratory flourished at a very early date. The cultivation of oratory was a necessity among the Greeks as every man was obliged to conduct his own case in court. The law demanded that he should plead his own cause, but it was not necessary that he should write his speech. Hence arose the logographos whose business it was to write speeches. It was in this capacity that Lysias was most active...
Lysias was born at Athens in 459 B. C. He was the son of Cephalus, a rich merchant of Piraeus. His father's wealth enabled him to associate with the leading men of the city, and to pursue his education in the best schools of Athens. The period of his literary activity began soon after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, when he delivered his famous speech against Eratosthenes. It lasted about thirty years, during which time he wrote over two hundred speeches. The chief characteristic of Lysias style was his ability to adapt the speech to the character...
...pioneers of low prices in framing pictures. All Harvard men are cordially invited to examine specimens...
...discussion being the opportunities for charity work open to students. Professor Peabody made a short introductory address describing the various attempts of the past few year and outlining the plan proposed now. It has been proved that a college movement to be successful must arise from without. College men have neither the time nor the experience to originate a large plan of work. It is proposed now to work through channels already laid out. The many charity organizations of Boston eagerly welcome any aid from Harvard students. In order to make more plain the line of work thus opened...