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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question. Of the two rehearsals which the Glee Club has a week, one is generally under Mr. Locke's direction, while the regualr leader of the club has charge of the other. This scheme has proved exceedingly beneficial to the club and account not a little for its present high standard. Would not an analogous plan in regard the Pierian Sodality prove beneficial to it also, and tend to raise the standard of our college orchestra? The writer has nothing but praise for the present conductor and congratulates the society in having one so fitted for the place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 3/15/1888 | See Source »

...wanting. The student knows little of art and his knowledge can be little increased by attendance upon lectures or by perusal of books on art. Nothing can make up for the absence of the actual picture by which alone the impression of form and color can be conveyed. The present modes of instruction at Harvard may help a student to talk about art, but fails to give him a definite understanding of the subject. With a picture or series of pictures before him, the student may gain in a few minutes a better idea of the principles of art than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A Felt Want." | 3/14/1888 | See Source »

...base-ball in the University. The plan proposed by the management is intended to meet this trouble. This plan is the establishing of a second nine. It has been tried before, but has always ended in failure, principally because not enough attention was paid to its success. The present plan is to have this nine well organized and disciplined, to give the members uniforms, and a training table if they so desire. The nine will have its own captain and manager, and games will be arranged for it. It will also be a part of their work to play against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 3/14/1888 | See Source »

...members of the CRIMSON board will hold a reception in the "Sanctum" at 9 o'clock this evening. All past and present members of the board are invited to be present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/14/1888 | See Source »

...suggestions and a complaint to make in regard to the First Winter meeting, held last Saturday. While the two former can be taken in hand and rejected or accepted by the Athletic Association as it wishes, the latter must be regarded and taken to heart by everyone who was present and is to be present at another meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/14/1888 | See Source »

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