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...that the Intercollegiate Debating Union is organized, it is important that Harvard prepare to defend her laurels and to win new ones. We have excellent material for this purpose; the question is, how to get the best results from...
...genius of Shakespeare, of his power and art they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give us instead: "Here on this bench and school of Time," and defend it as a better reading in a note. Another German critic of great pretensions, pronounces "the Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell," and "The Yorkshire Tragedy" to be Shakespeare's on the strength of structure and diction. Quoting from the last named play, he declares "the description of remorse...
...this tournament the Longwood Challenge Cup is offered by the Club. Mr. F. H. Hovey, who won the cup in 1892, will be called on to defend his title to it for 1893 against the winner of the tournament. The cup will become the property of any one winning it for three (not necessarily consecutive) years. Mr. E. L. Hall...
Oliver S. Campbell tennis champion of America will not defend his title next August...
...defend even the Atlantic coast...