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...their rightful position, the last. The reason why the last place should be deemed the better is probably because the judges are believed to be less critical towards the end of the speaking than at the beginning. The change, however, is not so unfair as it may seem. The present Junior class will have their turn at last place next year; no one is placed under a disadvantage, the only fault being that this advantage, if it be one, will have been given twice to the present Senior class. But it may be doubted whether this last place...
...unmatriculated student who has at some past time been a member of a class; or of a student in the Scientific School who has never been in the Academic department. Among the rules which the class nines are bound by, the Advocate gives the following : "Only past or present members of each class, that are still in the Academic department of the college, shall be eligible." By the strict wording of this rule, a Scientific student is not eligible, as he certainly is not in the Academic department; there is, however, a difference of opinion as to whether...
...debates which have thus far taken place in the Harvard Union show that the University can support an organization of that kind. But that the interest in the society may be kept at the present level, other inducements than debate pure and simple must be offered. Besides the room for debate, which it is hoped Sever Hall will furnish next year, there is need of a social reading-room, to be kept open in the evening, when one has time to look over the newspapers or reviews. The reading-room now in the hands of the undergraduates has never been...
...said, however, in excuse for the poorness of the records at the pole leaping and throwing the hammer, that each of these events has been competed for only once at our meetings, and the men had then made no preparation at all for them; but with the present inducements offered by the H. A. A., we shall expect to see the hammer thrown much farther than 59 ft. 8 in. on May 22, and can only regret the lack of opportunity for the improvement of the pole leaping record likewise...
...system as it now stands is very deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather to read good English than attempt to correct bad; and rhetoric, naturally connected with composition, is, by the present system, entirely divorced from it. Recitations in rhetoric are attended, themes are written; but what connection between the two exists in the mind of the student? Our English electives, too, are deficient...