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...Friday evenings. A few tickets for these performances are still on sale at Thurston's. The show during the Easter recess in New York made a decided hit and received high commendation from the theatrical critics. The success in Boston has been equally encouraging. These three Cambridge performances will afford a last chance to see the famous play of "Hamlet" in a nineteenth century parody. It may not be an aid to men in English 2, but "The Sport, The Spook, and The Spinster" is certainly up to the average of Pudding shows and well worth seeing...
...questionable policy to try to foster what little spirit there is for this kind of athletics, if the college will not respond with more enthusiasm than it did on Saturday. Rather than let another exhibition of this kind go on record as the best that the University can afford, and by so doing incur deserved ridicule, it would be far better to let wrestling and sparring become things of the past at Harvard...
...world and in the old, - then it would certainly seem that, in a community so lavish in its beneficence, so intelligent in its selection of the objects of all beneficence, the Institute cannot long be suffered to lack that ample and substantial foundation which will not only afford, security for its future, but will be the source of strength and confidence in the present daily conduct of its affairs...
...believe in the first place that no permanent success can be obtained by a system of graduate coaching. No graduate can afford to give his time to coaching a crew and there is not always strength in a multitude of counsellors. An enthusiastic coach cannot have permanent success with a crew unless he trains the crew systematically. I am firmly of the opinion that the crew should be constantly under the training of a man who makes it his profession in the sense that Mr. Lathrop makes it his profession to train the candidates for the Mott Haven team...
...list of courses there has been one very important addition, - the course in Physical training. It aims to provide a training for those who intend to study medicine, to fit men to take charge of gymnasiums, and to afford systematic instruction in exercise and hygiene to students who may need special care of their health. The applications which have already been made for admission to the course are numerous, and shows that it is likely to meet a need...