Word: mannerisms
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...night the last lecture in the series on Health and Strength will be delivered in Sever 11. These lectures, which have been given weekly throughout the winter and spring, have been valuable ones in their field. The lecturer has succeeded in dealing with scientific and occult questions in a manner that has been clear and unpedantic, yet withal accurate and scholarly. To many of us these lectures have been of great practical usefulness. The harmful effects which are produced by ignorance, and a lack of proper care for our physical well-being have been put before our eyes so forcibly...
...class dinner. The classes at Harvard are now divided into so many groups, each little group thinking its own thoughts, having its own assemblings, and giving its own dinners, that we would fain forget that larger bond, the class, that binds them all together. In just such manner does the bond of our alma mater become indistinct in our eyes. But when college days are past, the difference is at once felt! How valuable all reunions, of college or class, then become to us; they speak to us like voices from the past. Why can not some of this spirit...
...boats will then be started in the following manner...
...thought, and to their conceptions of what argument should be. Therefore, a warning should be made in time. We feel obliged to dissent from the statement of the committee: and from our own experience at the debates, we must frankly admit that there is a lamentable carelessness in the manner in which many speeches are delivered. Likewise, the substance of many speeches is either totally irrelevant to the subject, or else the old attempts at witticisms which were considered hackneyed in the college days of our grandfathers are resuscitated, and in their grave clothes are trotted out to the rostrum...
...eighty-seven board to day assumes control of the CRIMSON. Never has the outlook of any board been more favorable. The retiring board merit all praise for the successful manner in which they have fulfilled their work. The paper has steadily increased in circulation throughout the year, not only among the students, but also beyond the college. Yet, notwithstanding the success of the past year, we hope during the coming year to still further increase the usefulness of the CRIMSON. Mention has already been made that a daily communication with the college secretary has been established, and it is hoped...