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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...inserts in its columns, when they are not very full, little essays on "Memorial Hall as a Match-box." But the wonder is that no one writes "A Dream in Sanders Theatre," or "A Midnight Adventure in the Tower." These suggestions are offered for what they are worth; the writer's only hope is that contributors to College papers will not descend to the barbarism of writing "Memorial...
...very much surprised by the illiberal tone of a letter in your last paper, on the subject of lawn-tennis. Not only did the writer disapprove of the game, but he seemed to advocate violent measures for compelling those who like it to devote themselves to rowing instead! Granting that playing lawn-tennis is not violent exercise, and is not a manly sport, which seems to be your correspondent's opinion, only makes it more improbable that it diverts any men from rowing, as those who play it would be weak and effeminate; but we do not grant that...
...writers of the articles alluded to confine themselves almost entirely to complaints about the music here. One writer gave as his reason for the lack of good music among us, the fact that we were shamefully lacking in energy, not merely in musical matters, but in everything that requires any effort whatever. It is the purpose of this article to ask - in no spirit of fault-finding, however - whether we must not consider the class of songs sung by the Glee Club in some degree accountable for the failure of that Club to give general satisfaction...
...print. We entirely dissent from opinions expressed by the author of "More Music at Harvard," and publish the article merely because it presents the stock criticisms in a form convenient to answer. Were we ever so credulous, we could not be brought to believe that such glees as the writer mentions are too difficult for men with any knowledge of music and with fair voices, and much less can we believe that they are too difficult for our Glee Club. If "W" had lately heard the Glee Club sing, he would have recognized the fact that their music is hardly...
...York Times of March 16 prints a letter on boating at Harvard, which contains statements that are very unjust to the gentleman who has lately been coaching the Freshman crew. The writer of the letter states that, though the Freshman crew is now being coached by Mr. Warren Goddard, '79, he will soon have to be replaced by some one who has had more experience in boating. In the very next sentence he laments the fact that, without a coach, the crew is doing but poorly, which is just another way of saying that Mr. Goddard's work amounted...