Word: short
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot, in a short speech, said that the powers necessary to win scholarships and prizes are those which bring success in after life. Physical, intellectual and moral strength are as much needed by the scholar as by the athlete or the soldier. The excellent physical condition of the scholarship holders is a source of great satisfaction and their nervous system must be in good condition. While the desire of pecuniary assistance is a motive which, in some cases, leads men to try for scholarships, it is no longer the leading motive. The difference between scholarships with and without stipends...
...best feature of the Christmas Lampoon lies in its illustrations, which are exceptionally good. A picture of the Boston coach arriving in Cambridge on Christmas Day fifty years ago, and the centre page drawing by C. M. Bill '00 are the best of these. The chief fault with the short stories and jokes is that they are based upon affairs which have no direct connection with the College. The Death of Sir Cuttenthrust, A Legend of the Third Crusade, starts ambitiously, but is not sustained and falls flat at the end. It is well set off, however, by marginal drawings...
...Civil Service Reform Club will hold its first smoke talk Monday, at 7.30, in the Colonial Club. Professor E. H. Strobel will speak on "Our Diplomatic and Consular Service," and Professor S. M. Macvane will give a short talk on "The English Civil Service System." Five of these smoke talks will be held in the course of this year...
...virtue of the otherwise inexcusable "club state" which enabled it to hold its own for so long was its intelligence in matters of this sort. Its trial elections weeded out in advance all wasteful short sighted nominations. But now that the clubs have given up their slate the responsibility which they used to shoulder falls on the class at large. And this responsibility can never be lived up to unless the separate members of the Senior class exercise caution and self restraint in making as well as in accepting nominations. If it is too late for the nominators...
...edition of Le Pedant Joue, including an introduction on the life and works of Cyrano de Bergerac, by H. B. Stanton '00, is a most satisfactory piece of work. Besides the introductory essay and M. C. H. L. N. Bernard's revised edition of the text there is a short preface by Professor Ferdinand Bocher...