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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...like New York and Philadelphia are wholly neglected. Languor and indifference are the prevailing points in our musical organizations. The recent concert of the Pierian Sodality at Sanders showed the presence of talent and ability in this line. Although we cannot dispense with these local concerts, we desire to see Harvard's name and influence extended by the efforts of her musical societies. We advocate a healthful activity in musical as well as aesthetic affairs...
...Horticultural Hall. While the figure modeled from Sullivan cannot fail to attract attention as a wonderfully realistic presentation of the modern athlete, as contrasted with the Greek types with which we are so familiar, the other statues show inspiration, of a higher sort. It is indeed encouraging to see classic subjects treated by an American sculptor with such freshness of conception and such spirit and success in execution. A more charming figure than that of "The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus after the Battle of Salamis" it would be difficult to find. Such a work is worth more than pages...
...skating business on Holmes Field has been discussed so much that it has become as much of a public nuisance as the periodical remarks about swimming in the college yard. If there are men here who want to see the field flooded, they should go to work in earnest and enlist the interests of the Athletic Association in the matter, and not encroach upon our patience by ineffectual complaints or suggestions...
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...have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this can be found in any pond. If set on any other table than in Memorial Hall it would be thought an outrage. The only way to correct such evils seems to be to call general attention to them...