Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...good, but it is worked out in the conventional comic opera style. The dialogue contains few novelties and becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...
Although there are two positions on the Harvard nine which are rather unsettled, there is every reason to believe, judging from the earnestness of all the men, that the nine will play a hard game. The men are all in good condition...
...will associate his name, or that of another, permanently with Harvard, and will secure to an extent possible by no other gift the gratitude of all Harvard's alumni and students during a long future. Certainly the recent experience of Harvard as of other similar institutions has given no reason to believe that the race of Hollises, Stoughtons, Holworthys and Boylstons has died out. On the contrary their number ever increases, and the University stands today the monument of a group of departed and living benefactors whose names, from John Harvard down, are, and will always remain, household words...
...wish to protest against some of the statements made in your editorial of May 4, concerning the Yale debate, for the simple reason that in your anxiety to explain satisfactorily the cause of the defeat you have disregarded the truth of the matter...
...remark that the manner in which our representatives presented their material was inferior to that of Yale. Here is your cause: "The reason for this is doubtless that they had given little attention to detail in the matter of delivery when they were preparing. A skillful instructor in elocution was ready and anxious to help them, but either because they thought themselves sufficiently prepared, or because they did not care to give the time, the debaters neglected to avail themselves of his assistance, and as a result their form was not good...