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...publish in another column a letter from a correspondent concerning a recent editorial article in the Harvard Echo, - a letter which we do not think is open to the charge of misrepresentation or malicious exaggeration. The Echo has a perfect right to criticise, in a courteous manner, any line of conduct that seems unjust; but it has no right whatsoever to insult an instructor who may have displeased some portion of the men in his elective. Both the matter and the spirit of the article in question call for the severest reproof from all who have any desire that...
...publish in another column an article on instruction in elocution. It is hardly necessary to reiterate the necessity of a better system of instruction in this subject, so neglected here at Harvard. We must disagree with the writer, however, when he blames the instructors. Both those gentlemen are extremely painstaking and diligent in their efforts to raise the standard of elocution at Harvard. The trouble arises not from their lack of effort, but from the impossibility for two men to perform the work which is put upon them. As the writer says, those who do not engage their time very...
...first prize at the meeting here, he will still have a chance to compete at Mott Haven if his performance is of sufficient excellence to warrant the Association in sending him. A list of the events to be competed at Mott Haven will be found in our Brevity Column...
...convenience of tennis-players, the editor of this column will provide himself with a few copies of the complete tennis rules, as amended, which may be obtained from him at the regular publisher's price...
...would seem that dissatisfaction is likely to ensue in the awarding of the trophy. The suggestion therefore may not seem out of place, that the medal be awarded to any man who beats the best American College record, a list of which will be found in our Sporting Column this week. It might be urged that there is the same objection to this disposition of the medal as to the other, but the objection exists in so modified a degree, owing to the superiority of the Intercollegiate records, and the consequent unlikelihood of more than one being broken, that...