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...collegiate methods of instruction. While a dinner of Harvard alumni would be an impossibility in the vicinity of Boston, as no hotel would be able to accommodate such a vast throng as would appear, we may feel assured that the influence of Harvard does not wane on account of the impossibility of holding alumni dinners of their own. Even at the bluest of blue Yale assemblies, a Harvard representative is one of the honored guests, and eloquent words are not lacking in answer to the toast for Harvard. Truly the college dinner is a fountain of intellectual as well...
...large number of foot-ball games between scrub elevens this fall shows that interest in the game is by no means on the wane at Harvard. The interest too which the class games excite is by no means small. All this gives promises of exciting contests next year, should the faculty again allow us to play our old antagonists. Foot-ball is a game which cannot die even in the face of numerous discouragements. To-day the second scheduled class game is to be played, and a large number of students will doubtless turn out and support their favorites. Eighty...
...candidates presented themselves, or has so much enthusiasm been manifested by the players. To be sure all did not intend to try for positions on the team, but the large number who were there ready to play shows conclusively that interest in the manly game is not on the wane at Harvard, to say the least. The majority of the men were not heavy, but of good size, and the prospects are that a team can be selected fully as heavy as last year...
...better fall sport has ever been desired than foot-ball, and its abandonment by the college cannot fail to be taken as an indication of the wane of that spirit of pluck and hardihood which has characterized the Harvard undergraduate of the past...
...column of Brevities we publish the directions which Mr. Child has given for the prosecution of this work. There are, doubtless, many people of Irish or Scotch birth who can repeat the ballads which have existed orally during so many years : but the number of these is on the wane. Many of the old songs are irrevocably lost; but it is not too late with diligence and care to accomplish much. Correctness, morever, is essential; and there is great demand for tact and patience. Any attempts at alteration will render a ballad utterly worthless for all critical purposes : the literary...