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Many opinions are expressed about this lack of success, and a quite prevalent one is that the Glee Club in its attempt to sing some of the more difficult glees is rather too ambitious. The individual talent of the Club is not more than fair; the united efforts often seem strained and affected. To sing the songs of the Apollo or Boylston Club is indeed a laudable ambition, but to expect in so doing to meet entire success is presumptuous...
Regarding it also from an artistic point of view, - and this should not be totally neglected, - is it not better to do a little well rather than to do much poorly...
...them yield to superior obstinacy. It is too late to go back now without incurring all sorts of unpleasant suspicions. We repeat what we said when the challenge was first sent, the Freshmen have simply to go in and do their best. In future they, or rather their successors, will do well to look more carefully before they leap, and to consider that the leap, when taken, is final...
...second bout of the light-weight sparring followed, Messrs. H. E. Teschemacher, '78, and L. A. Plummer, Jr. L. S. S., '79, being the contestants. This bout was very lively. Mr. Plummer was cool and collected, while Mr. Teschemacher was rather more excited. Sharp blows were exchanged and very pretty dodging was exhibited by both men. The bout was awarded to Mr. Plummer...
Columbia-Oxford. In our last issue lack of space prevented us from commenting on the letter from Cambridge, Mass., to a New York daily quoted in this column. The correspondent from Cambridge entirely misunderstood Captain Bancroft when he wrote that "Harvard feels badly because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia." We wish to correct this statement, which places us in a false position. No such feeling prevails at Harvard either among the men of the crew or among the students...