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...Tatler, which he started, was the first successful attempt to gather news and present it to the public. The first number appeared in April 1709, in it being shown the scope and purpose of the paper. It was to be issued Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week, being started and run entirely by Steele who in connection with it, assumed the name of Isaac Bickerstaff. Addison detected the hand of Steele in one of the first issues and offered his services, contributing first in the eighteenth number. His appearance made a change in the character of the paper. Politics...
...wish to remind the students once again of the new voluntary course in Literature and the Art of Reading Aloud, which will meet for the first time today. Mr. Copeland has increased the scope of the course since the first announcement, adding much to its attractiveness. As it now stands it is distinctly a novelty in the way of courses at Harvard, nothing of the kind ever having been given before. Mr. Copeland is anxious to have it make a place for itself on its own merits. He naturally wishes it to reach as large a number...
Superintendent Cogswell then gave a short address, explaining the technique of the Manual Training School. There are two courses of four and six years, promotion is determined by personal supervision by the teachers only, and recently the range of studies has assumed a broader scope...
...wish to speak on the object of the movement. Education in general has been too exclusive in its scope. The time has now come when we see that the laboring classes should have the advantages God meant to give by education, and it is for this that the movement was begun. We have found it possible to lecture to these lower classes in the arts and be welcomed by them. I have found that the libraries, in places where the movement has been at work, have been used much more than before, thus showing in one instance the good done...
...society, as thus organized, will elect to membership such men as shall prove their ability as speakers. The society will hold open meetings, and full opportunity will be given to all university men to speak at the meetings, as candidates for membership. Thus in no sense will the scope of the Union be limited, and the character will be infinitely bettered...