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...clothing which they may possibly need in a game; and that when the season is over they should have a dinner and a theatre party, and should send the Athletic Association the bill. There is always a new manager, laudably eager for the happiness of his team and seldom so careful about expenditures as an older man would be. It is the purpose of the committee not to be stingy, but to check graft wherever it can. In one direction the committee believes that it has increased expenses legitimately. It has done more than in earlier years for the comfort...
There are four ways of delivering a lecture: reading from a manuscript, a proceeding sometimes entertaining but never thrilling; learning by heart, which is seldom more successful; the combination of the two, so often heard in pulpits and meetings, called speaking from notes; and the true, natural way which involves thorough preparation of the subject, without foreknowledge of the words in which it is to be delivered. Then the lecturer if he is clever gives the impression of talking casually but very well, and of having something on his mind which he wishes to impress upon his audience...
...noticed in the Reading Room that the demand for any book is seldom much in excess of the supply, except during the thirty-six hours before work has to be handed in or reported on. If men would be a little more forehanded with their work, or would remember that when the Gore Hall copy of a work cannot be had, copies can often be found in Harvard Hall or in one of the other special libraries, the difficulty of supply would be much diminished...
...play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand we seldom trust. The people among whom he is placed in the play are good people but their attitude towards him is the attitude of many of the audience. They cannot sympathize with him. But with it all there is a feeling of certainty, of faith in himself in this play which...
...other hand the abolition of borrowed applications would be a timely measure. Such applications now seldom secure tickets for the Yale game, and for the other games they are not needed. The special list is a useful institution, but it seems that 3592 is and excessive number of seats to be distributed by privileged persons, considering that this number represents nearly one-fifth of the total number of seats assigned on Harvard applications last fall...