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Sever 11 was packed last evening with the audience that througed to hear the great temperance orator, John B. Gough. Mr. Gough's address, while it was filled with vivid stories, brilliant jokes, and the greatest originality, was also powerful in its argument as well as persuasive in its style of oratory-albeit Mr. Gough said at the beginning of his lecture, that in all of the 8,500 addresses he had made, he had never been guilty of logic, unity, or argument. The address is given very briefly below...
...discussion brought about by the introduction of a classical optional in the admission requirements at Harvard, the opponents of the change have, almost invariably, cited the educational systems of England and Germany in support of their argument. They bring up the fact that in the English preparatory schools and the German gymnasia classical instruction goes much farther than it does in similar institutions in this country. They claim that until a student attains the English or German standard, a classical education should be prescribed for him. In view of this claim the fact acquires interest that there is a considerable...
Quite a number of men have accepted Mr. Clymer's proposition to substitute a twelve page argument for the next two required junior themes...
...clashing of knives and forks that followed the taking of these pictures was a strong argument in favor of the lunches; or else the twenty seconds of restraint and cessation from labor were almost too much for hunger and human nature...
...resulted in affirmative, 15 votes; negative, 34-was taken, the debate; was opened by G. P. Knapp, '87, for the 'affirmative, and by C. G. Parker, '85, for the negative, followed by W. C. Waite, L. S., affir.; C. L. Griffin, '88, neg. The vote on the strength of argument of principal defendants stood, affirmative, 21; negative...