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Early in the season the back-field developed a strong, vigorous attack, but the line has never reached the effectiveness of the men behind it. A scarcity of experienced men who were at once heavy and fast made the problem of building up the line difficult from the first, and team-work made little progress under the many changes and experiments in the personnel of the team. For a long time there was evident in the line a woeful lack of aggressiveness, due largely to the lack of confidence of the men in themselves and to the same unfamiliarity with...
Atlantic Monthly--"The School," by C. W. Eliot '53; "The Battle of Gray's Pasture," by G. L. Teeple '97; "Journalism," by Sir L. Stephen h.'90; "Economic Conditions for Future Defense," by B. Adams '70; "The Problem of the American Historian," by W. G. Brown '91; "On Growing Old," by Norman Hapgood '90; "Some Recent Books on the Elizabethan Drama," by G. P. Baker...
...University crew has now been working regularly for a month under Coach Higginson's direction, and so far one of the chief difficulties with which he has had to contend has been the problem of finding a new stroke for the first eight in order that McGrew might be used at 6. Wolcott and Dillingham were looked upon as the only possible candidates for the position, and both were accordingly tried. Wolcott kept the position for almost three weeks and was not found satisfactory; so he was moved to the second and his place was taken by Dillinagham...
...Emerson, arranged for by the Department of Philosophy in connection with the memorial lectures in observance of the centennial of Emerson's birth, will be given in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight. Mr. Copeland will read the following selections: "The Rhodors." "Brahma." "Days," "Threnody," "The Problem." "Good Bye, Proud World," "The Conquered Hymn" and parts of "Domestic Life" and of the address to the Harvard Divinity School. The reading tonight and the remaining lectures of the memorial series will be open to the public...
...fiction in this number is rather better than usual, and there are two essays of worth. The editorial treats efficiently of an interesting problem in our social life. There are three competent book reviews...