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...think, to be highly commended. There are many students in college who are unable or unwilling to give the amount of time required by any of the other French courses, and who do not wish to attempt to acquire a thorough knowledge of the language at Harvard, but rather choose to defer its completer acquisition to a later time. But many of these find it necessary in their other courses to obtain a working knowledge of French and ability to translate ordinary passages at sight. For the requirements of such, French V. is especially well suited. Unlike all the other...
...Amherst in '72, that carried the blue and white in '74, or that gained laurels for Harvard in '77, '78 and '79. There is a weedy look about some of the men, and a suggestion that their muscle is too much of a forced growth, that they are rather hot-house products than men naturally of great power and stamina. Strong men they are undoubtedly, men who can pull four miles at a good pace, but despite the fact that five rowed in last year's crew, they have not yet gained a thoroughly seasoned look...
...oarsmen were seriously interfered with by the stiff breeze that blew up the river, while in the upper part of the course the water was quite lumpy, so that several of the boats shipped water. In view of these circumstances it will be seen that the time made is rather good...
...discovered that notwithstanding their urgent and apparently reasonable request about the disposition of tickets, a member of the class has seen fit to place on sale at a store in Cambridge sundry Memorial and yard tickets, to be sold to any one who cared to buy them. The committee, rather than allow this, saw fit to purchase them at a price far above their value; and they would now beg every member of the class who is contemplating any like action, to consider whether he ought to place the interests of his own pocket before the interests of his class...
...this play for representation no pains have been spared to make it complete and correct in every respect. The costumes have been carefully studied from the best classical authorities and from engravings and statues. They are not exactly such as would have been worn by the Roman actors, but rather those in vogue in Athens at the time the action is supposed to have taken place - that is, 300 B. C. The old men are dressed in the chiton and pallium; the young men in the chiton and chlamys; the women in the encyclum, palla and chiton. In selecting...