Word: speake
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...especially since a quartette has never yet been a part of its organization. With regard to the duties of the Glee Club to the college, and those of the college toward the Glee Club, I must make a grave general charge against the college. Musically speaking it is at the lowest ebb of indifference. Not to speak of the neglect of the musical opportunities afforded by Boston, the number of students attending Mr. Henschel's concerts in Sanders itself was disproportionately small; while the concerts which Prof. Paine arranged, on his personal responsibility, in Sever, were a failure through...
...been very successful. The presence of a trainer is a new thing at Yale, and, of course, the first season cannot work very great results. Mr. Dole has done very faithful work with his men and we hope to make a creditable showing at the inter-collegiate games. To speak definitely of the men and the work they have done, Brooks is our strongest man. He has tried the quarter-mile run this year for the first time and his record of 50 2-5 seconds shows well his ability. It is unfortunate that he happens to be our fastest...
...Cornell graduate speaks in bitter terms of college faculties. "A college faculty," he cries, "to speak the plain, unvarnished truth, is a body content without a soul, without a sense of responsibility, for the simple reason that the individual is lost in the multitude. It is impossible to obtain from an aggregation of twenty or thirty men anything like uniformity of action. The whole is broken up into groups or cliques which do not act in concert, and according as one or the other of such cliques may be present on a given occasion, the voting will be decided...
...comes anywhere near our ideal of what a university, in the proper sense of the word, ought to be. We have made great, very great progress during the past twenty-five years, but we have nothing like the great universities of Vienna, Leipsic, Berlin, or even Strasburg, not to speak of Oxford and Cambridge, in England. Ezra Cornell, himself not a liberally educated man, gave one of the best definitions of a university when he said that he would found an institution where anybody could learn anything. On the side of teaching, we have not enough teachers. At Harvard more...
Competitors for the Boylston prizes will speak in the following order: 1, Wyeth; 2, Putnam; 3, Brown; 4, Sullivan; 5, Heilbron; 6, Agassiz; 7, Denniston; 8, Sawyer; 9, Hatch; 10, G. H. Page; 11, Jack; 12, Cummings; 13, Eliot; 14, Morison; 15, Hubbard; 16, Sessions; 17, W. H. Page; 18, Barnes; 19, Noble...