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...growth of sentiment is away from declamation which perhaps once flourished in the University, and toward debate. This is shown by the fact that the Boylston Prize contests which used to pack Sanders Theatre now gather hardly a handful. The intercollegiate debates on the contrary are better attended and attract more interest each year. The College offers no opportunity for training in declamation while there has been a substantial growth in the instruction given in debate. English 6 has increased in numbers and English 30 has been added; English 10 looks toward debate rather than declamation...
...Dramatic Discourse," Monday afternoon, under the auspices of the Cliosophic Society. The lecture was intensely interesting and very entertaining with his humor. This lecture was the last of a series of special lectures during the past two weeks which have served, by their interesting character and present importance, to attract the whole university...
...President then proceeds to a discussion of the elective system with some remarks upon the prescribed courses. He says that from figures published in previous reports it is possible to state with approximate correctness the subjects and courses which steadily attract large numbers of students, and in this connection he gives the following list...
...public and members of the University will do well to be on hand early. In spite of the fact that the mid-year examinations are keeping men to their books most of the time, we have no doubt that the speaker and his very interesting subject-John Bunyan-will attract a large audience...
...contribution in the February Atlantic which will attract perhaps the widest attention is an able paper entitled The Presidency and Mr. Reed. It is a thoughtful presentation of the requirements of the presidential office and a discussion of Mr. Reed's fitness for it. It is the first of a promised series upon the issues and some of the personalities of the forthcoming campaign...