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...features of the meeting will doubtless be the flying rings and pole vault, both of which are invitation events, and a look at the entries will show what prominent athletes have entered. Stoll is the champion of America in the flying rings. The entries and events are as follows...
There is one point in the committee's recommendations which we should be inclined to question. The committee doubtless has admirable and well considered reasons for deciding that the gowns shall be worn through the evening. While recognizing the advisability of having the Class Day dress as uniform as possible, and while seeing the force of feeling which wishes to keep up the scholastic idea of the senior class throughout the whole day, we cannot but believe that, practically considered, the gowns on a hot June evening, especially in a crowded room where there is dancing, will be rather uncomfortable...
...this subject and makes it more valuable to Harvard men than a mere public lecture, is the chance offered for asking questions. The conferences have always possessed this distinctly informal character, and it is this that has added so much to their value. The conference this evening will doubtless afford subjects for many questions connected with loyalty in politics. It is a much debated point and many men will probably take the opportunity of having their ideas on the subject cleared up by Mr. Lodge. There will be a great temptation to ask questions on subjects of even a broader...
...might see if they only knew enough to look for them. Mr. Chamberlain's interest in birds, and the knowledge he possesses of them, as displayed in the two-volume work he has recently published, are too well known to Harvard men to need further mention here. He will doubtless have a large and interested audience to which to lecture this evening...
...good deal of emphasis the point that the oratorical powers of the average Harvard man are far from wonderful or even creditable. The men who spoke last evening had fairly good ideas, but most of them were unable to air them intelligently and forcibly. Lack of practice has doubtless much to do with this condition of things. The want of self-confidence exhibited by many of the speakers was largely due to this lack of practice. There is no reason why, with the opportunities at hand, speaking should not be more widely cultivated and why there should...