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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THOSE who have enjoyed Mr. George Riddle's instruction in Elocution this year have expressed great satisfaction, and it is earnestly hoped that he will be appointed for another year...
...Philosophy I. for the coming year, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume will be substituted as text-books for Descartes and Malebranche, which were announced in the Elective Pamphlet...
...speaking for the Boylston prizes next Thursday promises to be unusually interesting. The preliminary contest has reduced the number of speakers, so that the contest will not be wearisomely long, and special care has been taken to avoid the dull and hackneyed selections which have bored listeners in previous years. Much credit is due the instructors who have brought about this change, and have labored to make the contest something more than the dreary affair it has usually been. We wish, now, to urge upon all students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest...
...status of the "House clubs" for next year, although on a very uncertain basis, does not seem to warrant the discouraging article in the Advocate of last week. We should think that Mr. Blakie would hardly foreclose this spring, if there was a reasonable chance of getting the rest of his money in the autumn ; and the coming of the guileless Freshman, like the first bird of spring, may be a forerunner of better times for the House Clubs. With this in view, and the expenditure of a little more energy on the part of the club secretaries, we think...
WHILE we unite with the Advocate in rejoicing that the system of voluntary recitations is to be thoroughly tested next year, we are not equally doubtful of the success of that system. The students who are to have the benefit of the privilege - those who have attained seventy per cent - are the very men who will not abuse it, and they are hardly complimented by the assertion that they will be "tempted to cut on any pretext." Their present high rank is a sufficient warranty of their future conduct, and we feel confident that they will not willingly permit...