Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, in its efforts to further the boating interests of the college, we feel compelled to take issue with it for an opinion expressed in its issue of last week. In an editorial advising the boat club to revive the class races in the fall, it spoke as if, because the faculty have prohibited inter-collegiate foot-ball, that sport was to die out from among our college games and be no longer worthy of consideration. It seems to us rather, as if next year is to be an important crisis in the history of foot-ball...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In your editorial yesterday morning, you spoke of the coming exhibition of the Photographic Society as if you thought it was to be an exhibition of prints, while in fact it is to consist solely of lantern slides (stereopticon). These slides are not even the work of the Harvard society, but of a member of the Philadelphia society, who has lent them to us that we may compare our results with those of the most successful amateurs in various parts of the country...
...better debate from the principal speakers has been heard this year than was listened to last evening. The vote on the skill of argument of these disputants was 15 to 2 in favor of the nagative. When the debate was thrown open to the house the following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Messrs. Sternbergh, '87, and Elgutter, '87; negative, McAfee, '87, Mahaney, '88, Merriam, '86, Garrison, '88, Hammerslough, '88, Saunders, '84, and Griffin, '88. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole stood 12 to 2 in favor of the negative. Inasmuch as the approaching examinations...
...naturalness. Mr. Roundy as Brutus was too declamatory in his delivery, and lacked naturalness in his action. Mr. Richardson as Casca took the opportunity in interrupting Cassius and Brutus to deliver one of the most peculiarly theatrical outbursts of the evening. He mouthed his words very badly, and spoke in a sepulchral tone worthy of the ghost of Caesar. While the acting of Mr. Jones as Brutus showed some lack of study, the purity of his enunciation was in marked contrast with the indistinct utterance of many of the other actors. The scene between Brutus and Portia afforded some opportunity...
...mistake of the printer, the name of Mr. Allaniah Davis Cole, who spoke Hayne's "Speech in the Senate," was omitted in the report yesterday of the Boylston prize speaking...