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...verse, Mr. Clark's "To a Cello" has most distinction. The feeling is sincere, and the skilfully chosen words sensitively echo the feeling. "Wrangler of the X Bar U," by Mr. R. M. Jopling, has a good swing and vigorous lines. Mr. Sanger's "The Vision of His Work" is an interesting example of the tendency to seek poetic subjects in the sights and sounds of a great city. Occasionally the choice of words might be happier, as in the line "The whistles of the harbor craft ring out." Infelicities are rare, however, and there are often very good lines...
...debate between the Senior Wranglers and the Boston Young Men's Christian Association will be held Friday evening at Association Hall, Boston. The subject is that of the Princeton debate. The judges are Mr. Hezikiah Butterworth, Judge Henry S. Dewey, and a third judge to be chosen later. The wrangler's team consists of P. A. Atherton, E. E. Sargeant, and M. Seasongood, with W. M. Chadbourne as alternate. Messrs. Longfellow, Leonard and Sargeant will represent the Association. Admission tickets may be obtained by application at CRIMSON office...
...more thing may explain the prejudice of some scientists against religion, that is, that they do not usually know enough about it to speak reasonably on the matter. Specialists are inevitably narrow and a physicist is no more capable of discussing metaphysics than a senior wrangler is of curing a sick...
...recent trial involving the validity of an English patent a senior wrangler, who was employed as an expert witness, was examined by another senior wrangler and cross-examined by a third...
...less of them. Exertion is not only not encouraged, but it is scorned. In England they say that to be anything at the university, a man must do well one of the three R's, - Read, Ride, or Row. There, the man who reads may become the Senior Wrangler, or take a First Class in classics, and he will be known and respected. He may take a Fellowship, and have for a few years an independent income, unshackled by obligations and conditions...