Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more important works of the last committee. However futile the latter may be for the present, there is plenty of work for the committee, both in this direction and keeping up the high standard of the former. Visiting teams who have played against other colleges this fall speak very favorably of the gentlemanly game of Harvard, an immediate effect we think, of the restrictions of the committee...
...already been rendered and accepted. That of the other committees will follow. The duties which devolved upon the committee with respect to the torchlight procession were so great that a sub-committee of thirteen was put in charge, and it is in their behalf that we desire to speak. Each class is to wear a distinctive uniform, and will present various additional features in the way of explaining the history of the college. Each man who cares to do so, is invited to prepare a transparency or special feature illustrative of some period of the university history, and carry...
...Glee Club concert of last Friday revived old memories and feelings, and with them the memory of a plan, not new, but one which may be made new by its extension to a yet wider scale than was at first intended. We speak of class Glee Clubs. That such clubs could exist has been shown by the freshman Glee Clubs of the last two years. The University Glee Club draws but five men on an average from each class; surely, there would be enough vocal material left in the class to form a tolerable class Glee Club. A moderately good...
With the ghost of "Bloody Monday" night hovering just ahead of us, it behoves us to speak of some quaint old rites which in years gone by used to take place on this first Monday of the college year, and which marked a lower stage in the development of our mental and moral faculties; for we will not venture to suppose that the roots from which these ancient customs grew are still lying hidden in the college soil. Long ago, then, as we said, it used to be customary for the new-fledged sophomores to serve notices upon the budding...
...last chance to speak words of encouragement to the nine, which we trust will to-morrow make one more step toward gaining the baseball championship for Harvard. That they will strain every nerve to defeat the only opponents who stand between us and victory, every man in college knows. Thousands of eyes will be turned on the nine to-morrow, and cheers from countless throats will show the good will and enthusiasm of the spectators...