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...difficult to realize perfectly how much wholesome restraint such an athletic sport exerts over new men at college, coming at the time when they are weakest. The need of good exercise is the cause of much of the danger of a university life. What could be a better preparation for morality and health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent...
...Grand Opera House, as heretofore, but in the new Columbia Theatre. We should be glad to receive again the assistance of Harvard men in the singing. A large chorus is desired; and as the music will be of the simplest character, few who would like to give their services, need be deterred by lack of musical power...
...club had given what it could afford to give. But there is a belief that there was considerable unnecessary extravagance last year, that money was spent in ways that the glee club had no right to spend it in view of its debt to the college and the pressing need of the crew. No one objects to the club having a good time during the trip and after it, but there are a great many who object to needless and selfish extravagance. There seems to be a disposition in glee club circles to regard it as merely a favor that...
...statements of Mr. Moses Williams in regard to the condition of the library reading room fund call for the most earnest consideration on the part of the undergraduate body of the University. The pressing need of a suitable reading room furnished with electric light is too generally felt to admit of more than one opinion regarding the scheme developed two years ago to supply the want. This plan, thanks to the individual energy of two or three men, was put into practical operation with such success as Mr. Williams' report shows. This twenty-two thousand dollars, the total of cash...
...Hayes has an article in the last number of "Kate Field's Washington" on the need of speech training in schools and colleges...