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...team to represent the University. Upon every such board of judges is one who is an authority on platform sheaking. The most approved manner of presentation is the deliberate and undemonstrative in distinction to the oratorical or campaign style. The common trait of the best University debaters of the past has been a faculty of combining with solidity of argument an objective style of delivery--the faculty of talking to an audience rather than at it--by means of which a closer contact and sympathy is established between speaker and listeners...
...that the team is developing steadily, though slowly. The defence had not been really tested up to the Brown game. In offensive work the team has shown excellent scoring ability. Nothing but the simplest plays have been used. The coaches who have assisted J. R. Swan '02 during the past week are L. T. Bliss, W. O. Hickok, Morris W. Ely, P. H. Stillman and B. C. Chamberlin...
...practice yesterday was a slight improvement over the work of the past week. One touchdown was made by the University team by straight plays from the 25 yard line. Foster was tried on the first eleven, and ran well, although on the defense he failed to get into the plays quickly. The plays were run off with more snap but the backs were slow at times and the whole team was unsteady...
...Bailey, the Medical Visitor, will give a series of three lectures to young men on next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11. These lectures will be similar to those given in past years and will be open to members of the University only. There will be no tickets for admission...
Many volumes have been added to the Library during the past summer. Most have been of a miscellaneous nature, and a large percentage have been books presented by foreign publishing houses. Of the private donations the most important is the gift from the Gurney estate of 1200 volumes, an addition to the series of gifts made possible by the will of the late Professor Ephraim Whitman Gurney '52. About 100 volumes on the catacombs of Rome have been presented by John Harvey Treat '62. A gift of 25 volumes on Dante, including several of the early editions, has been received...