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...playgoers of Boston are so disunited, so largely unknown personally to each other, that the judgment that they pass upon plays is far from having the weight that should belong ot any expression of opinion based on experience and thought. It is proposed that this club, to consist of such playgoers as shall be invited to join, shall meet from time to time to listen to addresses on dramatic subjects directly suggested by current productions, to discuss the merits and demerits of such performances as may at the time be attracting public attention, and in general to make the best...
Professor Ames Dean of the Law School.June 18, "The President having read to the Board a letter from Professor Langdell, asking to be relieved from further service in the office of Dean, and from one third of his duties as Dane Professor, and resigning the office of Dean ot the Law School, Voted that Professor Langdell's resignation of the Dean's office be accepted. Voted that Professor Langdell be henceforth relieved from one third of his duties as Dane Professor. Voted that in taking the above action at his request the President and Fellows desire to record their sense...
...more than these changes are needed to put the series on a firm basis,-there needs to be a change in the attitude of spectators. If the farce element is retained, we think that the series are doomed ot run themselves out in a short time. The farce kills the sport; it lowers the standard of play and lowers also the position of the games in the eyes of college men so that the spur for hard, serious practice is blunted. The downward tendency grows constantly stronger, It means that in a short time the series will have no excuse...
still remain and would lead ot evasion of the proposed rule, of a sort difficult to prove and punish. (2) The only practical remedy is to extend to them the merit system...
...connection with another passage in the same chapter, Dr. Abbott spoke of our ability ot discern good and evil. He said that man is naturally bad, and in bearing this load of evil his moral faculties are impaired. To develop this power of discernment is life's hardest task and the one upon which we must bestow our greatest care. Every familiarity with evil undermines our moral nature and strengthens the evil that is in us. On the other hand our associations with good break down the wrong and build up the right. God's aid alone is able...