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...speakers. All emphasized the necessity of keeping in good academic standing, and of reporting any dissatisfaction directly to the captain and coach. Frantz laid special stress on the fact that the first aim of baseball at Harvard is to play the game in a clean and sportsman-like manner, and not, as many suppose, to defeat Yale. Dr. Nichols spoke of the present system, which involves a great deal of knowledge of detail, but is not in any way intended to eliminate personal responsibility. "The best teams we have," he continued, "have no more than three first-rate...
...February number of the Monthly the principal article, at least in point of length, is the "Notes on Drawings by J. M. W. Turner in Cambridge and Boston." The notes, considerably after the manner of Ruskin, are as instructive as they are meant to be. An aggressively sapient piece of work, the article may interest those who are interested in Turner, if they are willing to forgive a patronizing tone for the sake of being informed. The dogmatic manner in art criticism, justified in Ruskin's case by his authoritative position, may in this article repel those who prefer...
...when his judgment does not indorse the actions of his party. For otherwise, there is almost sure to come to a professional politician a crisis when he must choose between his principles, and bread for his children. A man not rich enough to make politics his profession in this manner, should go into a business or profession and then take office when the conditions are such that he agrees with his party, but can also withdraw from politics at such times as he does not. A man having such a profession, should choose a party and a leader to whom...
...strongest articles in the present number take the form of literary criticism. Mr. R. M. Green who graduated two years ago, writes sympathetically of "Two Academic Poets;" Mr. R. B. Perry reviews Professor Palmer's "Nature of Goodness;" and Mr. Bell discusses "The Harvard Story," in a manner which would be a shade more happy if he did not describe Mr. Wister's "Philosophy 4" as a "booklet." The story by Mr. Hagedorn has more atmosphere than one often finds in that kind of thing nowa-days; and the amateurish "Ballad of the Trent,'" has promising simplicity, and vigor...
...rule in regard to the manner of election of Marshals is as follows...