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...public need. What a red flag is to a bull, the word "elocution" is to an average middle-aged official of more colleges than one. President Eliot's clear, ringing voice is meanly supplemented by the weak and indistinct utterances of a great multitude of his students when heard in public. If public oratory be a need in this republic, public oratory Harvard College must teach; so far as it is the public servant in the higher education, it will teach. - Transcript...
...which the gymnasium authorities responded to our suggestion that the condition of the shower-baths should be improved, leads us to hope that they will be equally prompt now, when we remind them of the worn-out condition of the balls and pins in the bowling alleys. We have heard many complaints on this account, from the men who daily seek amusement by bowling. The good balls are so few, that one must go begging at all the alleys before one can get enough to play with...
...fullness of tone produced by the 1st violins in the Gounod-Brand was better than we have ever heard before at a Pierian Concert; and too much praise cannot be given to Mr. Forchheimer for developing such a body of strings. But in the Seranade of Jonas all the instruments were not in tune...
Great improvement was shown in the fact that all the instruments kept on the key. The playing of the orchestra throughout the concert was the best the college has heard from them. While the voices of the Glee Club showed great excellence and careful training...
...winter advances and more and more use is made of the gymnasium, a venerable topic of discussion puts in an appearance again. Complaints about the bathing facilities at the gymnasium are heard on every hand, it is only with the hope of explaining the reasons for these laments that we attack the subject. It is a matter of interest to all. Everybody has had some experience with the coy willfulness of those faucets and pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally...