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...view of this uncertainty at Yale that our brief editorial was written. We felt that the expression of opposition at Harvard to the debate, might have some effect in determining the decision of the Yale freshmen. If they could be influenced to refuse the challenge, the debate would be as effectively, though not as satisfactorily, prevented, as if the challenge had never been sent. We did not, therefore, regard our editorial as a discouragement to the Harvard Freshman Debating Club in following a course of action to which it was already finally committed, but as an attempt, however late...
...strike out the mile walk from the list of events was taken up and after a short discussion it was voted to drop the walk, beginning in the year 1896. Harvard's motion to have the hammer thrown from a run was also carried, the change to take effect...
...clubs was the same as it was on the Christmas trip, except that quite a number of men were absent. The parts were not quite evenly balanced on the Glee Club and some of the best songs consequently could not be given with as much artistic effect as could be desired, but with this exception the concert went off very well. The Banjo and Mandolin Clubs played well and were several times encored. I. S. Adams '95 and F. W. Thomas L. S., were the soloists...
...learn with pleasure of the attempt the Department of English is making to have one of the old English comedies reproduced here. The play, though not performed by Harvard men, would in its effect be similar to the Latin play of last year and the Greek play which the Classical department had previously put upon the stage. It would doubtless lead to a quickening of interest in the entire English play literature of the period to which Ben Jonson belonged; and to this literature it would lend a character of reality which would be the best possible stimulus to students...
...effect of Reynolds's journey to Italy is very marked on his early portraits, particularly in the blending of colors, which he derived from the painters of Venice. In 1756 his note-book contains appointments for one hundred and fifty-four sitters. Of these portraits he did the head, hands and the final touches...