Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ABOUT ninety men were present at Mr. Perry's lecture last Tuesday. The works of Pope which were taken up were the "Rape of the Lock," the "Satires and Epistles," and the "Translation of Homer." Next Tuesday Mr. Perry will speak of the "Dunciad," and then go on to Addison...
PROFESSOR A. S. HILL met the men who wish to speak for the Boylston Prizes in U. 4 on Wednesday afternoon. Some thirty-five men were present. The number of speakers in the final contest, which takes place May 8, will be twenty. Students are advised to make their selection of pieces at least a fortnight before the final trial. The preliminary contest will take place some time during the week preceding the final contest, which will probably be in the evening...
...time to previous preparation. The apparent disregard of skill was particularly noticeable in the sparring, where once or twice the men appeared to forget that this art differs essentially from one practised in the prize-ring. The presence of several spectators in braided coats and "bell trousers" did not speak highly of the good taste and discrimination of some members in disposing of their complimentary tickets to such friends. If this evil arises from the custom introduced this year of selling tickets, it should be stopped, or it might perhaps be remedied by requiring all members to indorse with their...
...next went down stairs. Alas! the bowling-alleys were no more. The whole basement had been converted into an enormous billiard-hall, supplied with eight large tables. At each table were four students, and others were looking on. "Speak softly, sir," said my companion, "as this is a recitation in Billiards 5. There are seven electives in billiards. This is the advanced course in fifteen ball pool...
Surely there must be something radically wrong in a system which permits such injustice. That the evil exists every student well knows, however disinclined some may be, for very obvious reasons, to acknowledge or speak of it. Not only is the average system often unjust, but it is calculated, in the case of those students who strive only for marks, to work serious evil. The only way to avoid this result is courageously to sacrifice college rank to more solid advantages in after life...