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...gratifying to note that Professor Hill is delivering lectures in English literature. We hope these lectures may be largely attended, since it can hardly be said that Harvard men at present excel in this department. But it is at least as important to obtain correct ideas of our own writers as to be proficient in Terence or Aristophanes; and a chance is offered - particularly valuable to those who take no English courses - to learn a little something about our noble English literature. And once having heard Professor Hill speak upon subjects wherein he is so competent to pronounce opinions...
...would correct the statement in our Sporting Column of October 14, in regard to the 2-mile bicycle record. The telegram announcing Smith's performance was incorrect, as we discovered too late to prevent the error being printed. The best record at the event is still 6 min 27 sec., by W. S. Clark, New York Bicycle Club, at the American Institute Rink, New York...
...support, which is the willing and necessary accompaniment of a popular sport. The opponent of tennis further states that to those who do not play the game it seems to be the most utterly imbecile and childish of all out-door sports. This does not appear to us strictly correct. Lawn tennis poorly played may be uninteresting, but not childish; for even in the early stages of learning, when the art of the players is but little advanced, we who are not intimately acquainted with the game can nevertheless see how broad is the field for the acquirement of skill...
WILL you kindly allow me space in your columns to endeavor to correct a misunderstanding arising from the occupation of a portion of Holmes Field by the Lacrosse Association...
...necessity of a change in the English system of Harvard, so far as it pertains to instruction in Rhetoric and the correct use of our own language, cannot be too strongly emphasized...