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...bring the subject of elocution before the college at large, is an excellent one. The study of elocution is one which is too much neglected here, and which languishes rather from the students' tendency to keep in the regular rut to which they are accustomed, than from any fault of the study itself. Those who do take up elocution generally become enthusiastic over it, but their number is too small to make an impression upon the great mass of the indifferent. The plan proposed by the founders of the Shakespeare Club is a step in the right direction...
...which the various Harvard teams are composed. Only men who have been noted for good playing, or rowing, when at school attempt to gain positions on any of our teams, and a large majority of such men in the different classes do not even try. It may be the fault of the management that not enough inducement has been held out to make the men try for positions. The position that Harvard holds in rowing and field athletics is, without doubt, due to the efficient management of the respective associations, but the scarcity of good, not brilliant, foot-ball...
...increased to the utmost, that the burden incurred for sending men to the games may be lightened as much as possible. To this end we urge the H. A. A. to influence the committee in charge for next year to have a little more care that this fault is remedied in the future...
...them in putting themselves into the field the next time in perfect condition. They cannot deserve the support of the college and a large attendance at their game on Jarvis Field unless they do everything to assure the college that if they loose, it will be through no fault of theirs, but because Yale, '87 really has a better nine than the corresponding class at Harvard...
...activity on the part of the rifle-men. At one time, during the early spring, the possibility of a team match with Yale aroused some transient interest, but when it was decided that no match would be arranged this year, the interest speedily died out. It was through no fault of the Harvard Club, however, that there was no inter-collegiate match this spring, for every effort was made to induce Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College of the City of New York to put rifle teams into training to shoot for the college championship. Each of these...