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...glad to see the new bulletin boards in Hollis and Stoughton - yes, and one in each entry even. Not that such a trivial matter as the existence of four bulletin boards, more or less, would cause such great joy to our hearts; but this change for the better is an omen, a presage of future improvements. For where little things do not escape the eye, there we may be sure that the big things are not neglected. When we see such a slight evil as the lack of bulletin boards in two buildings remedied, what shall not our hopes...
...chromatic runs, double stops, and artificial harmonics was perfection itself. A member of his delicate and chromatic runs, however, were lost to the auditor, being drowned by the din of the orchestra. The soloist richly deserved the encore he received. Dvorak's Rhapsody No. 1 is rather trivial in character and partakes somewhat of the characteristics of wild Scotch music. Considered as a light piece of music, its bold conception is admirable. Its principal motives were admirably brought out by the orchestra. The last number on the programme was Haydn's Oxford Symphony which was exceedingly delicately and conscientiously rendered...
...from a recent criticism of public speaking at Harvard, which is creating wide comment. It certainly is not difficult to account for such a criticism. It is merited and the writer has far from overstated the facts as they exist. It has long been deemed among the students a trivial matter to pursue any regular course of voice instruction and the natural result is that for several years the public speaking has been as a rule execrable. The speaking at commencement would disgrace any other college than that one which so proudly holds such matters light. When to an immature...
...hardly creditable to his literary ability. This time he offers us a short piece which does credit neither to his power of versification, nor to his judgment in selecting such an extract for translation. The lines are disjointed and unmelodious, while the idea contained in them is so trivial and insignificant that only the most masterly treatment could have made it justifiable. Mr. Sempers and Mr. Wister contribute very readable articles. Of the two, Mr. Sempers' will appeal to the more purely literary element of the college, while Mr. Wister, by his rather colloquial style and less abstruse subject, will...
...seems almost trivial to return to a subject which is so well-worn as that of the use of books in the library: but when the annoyance increases to such a degree that it becomes almost maddening, some word of protest certainly is not out of place. If every man will but remember that his interest in a reserved book is not a life interest, and that others desire to use it as well as he, the whole matter will be simplified and the trouble abated. It is this thoughtlessness, and only thoughtlessness, without question, which causes all the trouble...