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...lacrosse team in the game with the Independents to-day will be: goal, Latter; defence, Peabody, Williams, Goodale, Griffing, Weed; centre, Nichols; attack, Davidson, Blodgett, Henshaw, Hale, Harding. Substitutes, Towle, Morton...
FROM "TOPICS OF THE TIME" IN FEBRUARY "CENTUAY.""The determined attack upon classical education, which looked for a time like a successful rebellion, has been in reality of signal service to the cause against which it was directed. Among other offensive measures adopted by the friends of the old learning was the establishment at Athens of a school where rising American Hellenists could enjoy the same advantages as were afforded to their co-workers from Germany, France and England. The practical man would have flouted the scheme as chimerical. But, four years since, a few professors from leading colleges, full...
...third class of helpful limitations which may be influential over the persistent adhesion of our student to his chosen line of work. To establish onward-leading habits, therefore, should be one of the chief objects in devising limitations of election. The habit wanted is the habit of spontaneous attack. Prescription deadened this vital habit. Election invigorates the springs of action. I believe study at Harvard is to-day more interested, energetic, and persistent than it has ever been before. But that is no ground for satisfaction. A powerful college must forever be dissatisfied. Each year it must address itself anew...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The insulting attack made upon me by a person signing himself "W. S - e, '87" (an abbreviation by the way corresponding with the name of no member of '87 in the catalogue) in your issue of Thursday is unworthy of notice, except for the utterly foundless charge that it contains of an "attempt" on my part to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution." No one appreciates more highly than I the efforts of Mr. Hayes to give a thorough training in the art of expression...
...assistants has been extraordinary. Our correspondent ought not to expect that one man can create a department, above all when that one man has, as Professor Briggs intimates, encountered bitter opposition to his work of creation from those who would be naturally expected to second his efforts. To attack Professor Hill therefore is doubly unjust; it is unjust because it is entirely unjustifiable; it is unjust because it imputes to a conscientious man (whose devotion to his work has more than once endangered his health), those errors and shortcomings for which others are in a large measure to be censured...