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...Gymnasium do not attract except as a necessary means of training for some sport. Scrub hockey and basketball are not very generally supported, and winter track work is too often regarded solely as a preparation for the coming season. Although the various managers have done much in the past and can do still more to encourage secondary athletics in their respective branches by organizing and conducting series of games, the stimulus must come from the interest of the undergraduate body...
...play a prominent part in them. The conferences of the various societies will, as usual, consist in the reading of original papers by prominent members, followed by an informal general discussion. Another important features will be the continuance of the system of round tables established in the past two years, which consists in the division of the delegates to the general conference into smaller groups, for the purpose of facilitating informal discussion and argument...
...successful, chiefly by reason of Owen Wister's notable speech on "Our Country and the Scholar." Deturs were awarded to about thirty men in the first group who had never before received this form of academic recognition, and the names of the principal prize winners and scholars of the past year were read. The music, by the Doctors' Chorus, was exceptionally fine. They gave the "Winter Song" and the "Comrade Song," both by Bullard, and led in the singing of "Fair Harvard" at the end of the meeting...
...Photograph Committee. The Class Committee will be composed of the two men elected, and the Class Treasurer. This officer, elected by the class this year for the first time, will take the place of the treasurer chosen from among the three elected members of the committee in past years...
...will speak on "The First Century of Harvard college." The remaining lectures of the course will be given by Professor Edward Channing '78, on "The Second Century of Harvard College"; President Charles W. Eliot '53, on "Harvard University Fifty Years Ago"; and Mr. William C. Lane '81, on "Harvard Past and Present." Mr. Lane's lecture will be illustrated by views of the Yard and the College buildings which date back to the year 1726. Besides the lectures already planned, there will be illustrated lectures on "Harvard Men Past and Present," the dates and subjects of which will be announced...