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...that simply because they are lacking in some or all the requisites to speech-making, of a good voice, good enunciation, and a good presence. Yet, if these men are to become anything but mere office-lawyers they must acquire these things, and acquire them by the hardest sort of work. The question is pertinent why are not such men permitted, if they desire, to acquire the use of the tools of their trade in their college years, when acquisition would be so much easier ? So far as it goes, the instruction offered in elocution is excellent. The one regular...
...Tennis Association is about to enter another year's work, the present may be deemed an appropriate time to say a few words about its management, for the benefit of the incoming class. In former years the courts upon the college grounds were held by a sort of "squatter sovereignty," and complaints in consequence became so frequent that the tennis players of the university formed an association, which was to assume charge of the courts, and, in return for the small annual assessment fee required, was to keep them marked and rolled...
...played with the first eleven and, taken altogether, '88 showed up very well. '85 was well represented; but the number of good players from '86 and '87 was small. The kicking of Holden, '88, was fine and good rushing was done by the first eleven. Further progress of this sort is to be hoped...
...body does not exist or begin to act until after this meeting has taken place. The election of a temporary captain for the football eleven is the first thing necessary to put the men to work practicing, as nothing can be done without a head of some sort. This done, and that as soon as possible, we shall hope to see all suitable men of the entering class working with a will to put a good eleven in the field this fall...
...most important thing this fall, in an athletic point of view, is the football team. Although a number of men have been hard at work for more than a week, it is too early as yet to prophesy as to what sort of a team Harvard will have this year. Our poor success at foot-ball in the past has been explained in various ways, but the principal reason seems to be that the science of the game is better understood at Yale than elsewhere. There the team receives the benefit of an old experienced player who devotes the greater...