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...Pierian Sodality, which is one of the oldest organizations connected with Harvard, has entered upon the present year in a most flourishing condition. The number of members, which last year was thirty-one, has increased to forty-three, and all who have heard them play say that the performance is better than it has ever been before. All the instruments necessary for the production of a symphony concert are represented, and we may hope that at no distant time the sodality will attempt to rival the symphony concerts which are now so popular with the students. At present, however...
...writing of the Union we desire to criticise a kind of speaking which is frequently heard at the debates. It is evident that many men carefully prepare their five-minutes speeches, commit them to memory, and then declaim them. To our mind a debating society is not the place for declamation; but aside from that, the method is very ineffective, and ridicule oftener than approbation is manifested by the listeners. An assembly usually greatly prefers to hear a speaker who hesitates and stumbles in his remarks, provided they are extemporaneous, than one who fires off at short range a carefully...
...Monthly talks about that ever recurring theme, "What Next?" in the following pleasing manner. "Most of us, in looking upon the future, have very ambiguous notions as regards the condition of things which we shall find in the world proper. One or two vague notions we have. We have heard in a general way rather indefinite opinions expressed. These opinions come to us largely from men of experience. The professions are over-crowded. There is plenty of room for genius, but little room for mediocre ability. The days are past when the mere fact of possessing a college education ensures...
...other country is giving way. The danger is that the work of our first century of national life will be undone by Anglomania and dilletantism; but, so far as we now can see, that danger threatens only those feebler singers whose voice could under no circumstances be heard very far. - Yale...
...that the voices of the Advocate and Lampoon have been heard accepting, on paper, most gracefully their rightful status in athletics, we feel called upon to close the contest, again on paper, which we have so successfully inaugurated and carried out. The CRIMSON eleven, like its great compeers, the CRIMSON nine and crew, is officially awarded by the action of the Lampoon and Advocate the inter-press championship in foot-ball. The eleven stands by this declaration suns peur et sans reproche. It is yet a matter of doubt whether there will be another quest of the Holy Grail...