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...next feature of the programme was the performance on the Horizontal Bar, for which there were seven entries: Bachelder, '83, Dabney, '82, Denniston, '83, Morison, '83, Fay, '83, Bishop, '82, and Ripley, L. S. All of the contestants started off with motions easy at first, but growing more difficult with each succeeding turn. In the second and third turns nearly all the contestants received well-merited applause, and from that time on the applause was nearly continuous. The first exhibition of the "giant swing" was given by Bishop, and was evidently received with more favor than any previous event...
...became familiar with his clubs, and in reality did not seem to tire as much as his opponent. After the five minutes had expired they withdrew, and Luce, '82, and Kent, '82, entered. Neither of these handled the clubs with the ease of Hamlin or Barnes. Kent attempted more difficult feats than his opponent, and his muscular arm seemed never to tire. Toward the last of the five minutes Luce made more frequent changes. The prize was awarded to Barnes, whose swinging has seldom been equalled in the gymnasium...
...cooperative society at Harvard than the failure of her cooperative dining association; for it would seem a most useless waste of enthusiasm to attempt success in one, where failure had resulted in another. This for the reason that the essence of cooperation is cooperation, and it is difficult to see how cooperation is to be secured for one scheme, when it is denied to the other. "United we stand, divided we fall," would seem to be a necessary motto for the two representative schemes of cooperation at Harvard, and the result either way rests with the dubious factor of public...
Memorial Hall is one of the most attractive features of the college, and to many one of the pleasantest factors of their student life. It must be maintained at all efforts, and it is really difficult to understand why its successful support should be for an instant even doubted of. Numberless schemes for improving the condition of the Dining Association have been offered. Some are worthless, others seemingly good, but the majority possess the salient objection of being impracticable. The faults usually found with the hall are generally without foundation. The price, considering all things, is moderate; the fare...
...exchange states that it is so difficult to write in the style of AEschylus and Sophocles because the Attic is to be reached only by the highest flights...