Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hopes are blasted. Let the faculty consider the case fairly, and I think they must see how unjust is their action. Or if it is quite impossible to have English VI, let us, at least, have some parallel course. What Harvard men need, perhaps, more than any other thing, is practice in public speaking. Hitherto this has been our only means of preparation, and now we are deprived of even this. By all means, then, let us be allowed to retain such a course as English...
...Glee Club did itself credit as usual, as for instance in some of the quartets. The college songs were largely new, and one or two were unusually taking. A familiar Strauss waltz was sung in excellent style, and seemed to be the most popular thing on the programme. Another feature was the fine rendering of a lovely little "Lullaby," by Brahms. The performance closed with an arrangement of Handel's "Largo," for chorus and orchestra. In this was presented the most artistic work of the evening. The body of tone produced by the strings was remarkably full and even...
...fellow is broadened at all by coming to college, he will soon become conscious of the confusing complexity and many-sidedness of life and its occupations. He will find himself surrounded by such a mass of things which by some desire he is impelled to do, that the truth is soon forced upon him that he cannot hope to accomplish them all, but must pick and choose, and be content with the accomplishment of the most important of them. This is apropos of the choice of electives. The same principle is at work in both cases. We find ourselves placed...
...have to take a decided brace and go to work in a more systematic way than it has been doing so far. The captain, or his representative, ought to see that the eleven and substitutes are out punctually every afternoon. The training of these men should be the first thing seen to; they should be given plenty of opportunity to bat, and the best bowlers should bowl to them. The present system of letting everybody bowl, even those who only can throw the ball, should be done away with. After the eleven have had the necessary amount of practice...
...compulsory church caused a stagnation in religious matters at Harvard, that only the breaking of the fetters which bound us to the latter has disturbed. Dr. Hale declares our chapel service to be "the grandest he has ever seen." We think he is mistaken; it lacks the one thing which makes a religious service most impressive - spontaneity. But hereafter, with a sympathetic pastor in our midst to stimulate us to new ambitions, with a chapel where interest and not compulsion is the motive of attendance, where each worshipper feels that he is there to worship and not to be billeted...