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Plautus introduced many innovations, especially in metre and in musical accompaniment. The character of the parasite, if not his invention, was certainly elaborated by him. The great proof of Plautus's originality was his popularity. The influence of one poet upon another is always deeply felt, and so the process of transmission from the Greek to the Roman, must not be regarded as imitation, but as continuation...
...drastic measures against the game as the vote recently reported indicates. The abolition of intercollegiate contests in football for Harvard means that the game will die so far as that college is concerned. The results that followed the forbidding of games with other colleges in 1885, are a sufficient proof of that to those who have seen Harvard's long, hard struggle to get back to equality with Yale. If it is the purpose of the Faculty to kill the game at Harvard, the means taken will prove most effective...
...building a floor fourteen feet above the present one, the reading room will be divided into two stories, the lower of which will be converted into a stack, entirely fire-proof, which will accommodate 150,000 volumes. The upper story will be fitted up as a new reading room with more airy alcoves, better tables, and easy chairs. Between the present ceiling and the roof there is a vacant space of fifteen feet. This ceiling will be torn down, so that the new room will be at least as high as the old. The lighting, too, will be greatly improved...
There have been several cases of small pox at Yale, and orders have been given that every student should be vaccinated, unless he could furnish proof of having been vaccinated within two years...
...meet the Harvard freshmen in debate. By this action the Freshman Debating Club is placed in a position of peculiar responsibility. It has won the opportunity it desired, and it must now prove itself worthy to take part in intercollegiate debate. Mere victory over Yale will not constitute such proof. The members of the club must show themselves able to conduct the debate with energy and with intelligent appreciation of its significance. The future of freshman debating will depend in large part upon the outcome of their efforts. If they succeed in proving the fears based upon their immaturity...