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...recognize that this is asking much of the Tennis Association, but we believe that, if the athletics of the University are looked upon as a whole, this postponement will be seen to do more harm than good. On the other hand, if the members of the Tennis Association are so fair-minded as to appreciate the situation and to relieve the present need, the baseball men owe it to them to make no attempt to keep Jarvis beyond the present season...
...schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment, they had never felt. It seems the revelation of a new heaven and new earth, and to contain in itself its own justification. Then suddenly recollecting his duty, he shuts the window, calls them back to their tasks...
...situation: That such plays are powerful stimulants to the study of the dead languages, but that they would lose their force if applied too often. There might, however, well be a Greek and a Latin Play in every four years, so that both might be seen by each college generation...
...more distinguished audience than that which was present at the first performance of the Latin Play last night, will not soon be seen at Cambridge. Sanders Theatre was filled with representatives from the classical departments of many universities, together with professors prominent in educational movements throughout the country. The headmasters of the principal preparatory schools and fourteen presidents of colleges were present. Harvard was herself represented by several members of the corporation and board of overseers, the entire faculty of arts and sciences, and all the other officers of the university...
...form of culture; and yet it is not at all improbable that hundreds of students within the University regard the play with apathy. To them we speak. The play will make one of the most noteworthy events that, from the scholarly point of view, has ever been seen at Harvard. The undertaking is unprecedented; and the preparation has been made complete. The dress rehearsal last night left no doubt possible as to the success of the play. To witness it is, in all truth. a rare opportunity, not slightly to be esteemed...