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Last evening Mr. B. G. Waters '94 gave an informal talk on athletics before the members of the Prospect Union. He was introduced by President Ely as a specialist in athletics, and spoke of them in their various forms of development in college. Naturally he devoted much of his time to explaining the game of football and the training during the football season; but he spoke incidentally of the crew and nine as well...
...Poulton first spoke of the color of animals as adapted to purposes of concealment. This adaptation, he said, goes beyond merely affecting the surface of the animal's body and is deep seated in the nervous system. Some insects closely resemble dead leaves, and as a dead leaf with a hole in it appears more decayed than one that is entire, so some insects go to the extent of having what gives the impression of a hole upon the surface of their bodies. In one stage of development this hole is represented, as an artist would represent it on canvas...
Last night Mr. Copeland spoke of "Shakespeare briefly compared with other Elizabethan Dramatists." The "other dramatists" whom he selected were Webster, Ford, Jonson, Massinger, Hayward, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Marlowe, it being understood that these were chosen because they were the best of their age and not because they were the only ones worthy of mention. The lecture, or rather the informal talk, was filled with the anecdote and reminiscence of plays and actors, which is so interesting from Mr. Copeland; and his reading at the close was unusually effective, if that may be said...
...CLARK'S SPEECH.Walter Haven Clark spoke last for Yale. He referred the audience to the lexicon definition of independent and allegiance and presented the resolution in its new form: "That political action in accordance with one's own will, judgment or conscience is preferable to unswerving allegiance to party." With the resolution thus in shape he proposed to strike at the root of the matter and consider what is a man's chief duty to civil society. Without doubt it is to establish and maintain a civil government that shall promote the chief ends of civil society, life, liberty...
...PEDDIE'S SECOND SPEECH.To close the debate, a five minute speech was allowed to one man on each side. Mr. Peddie spoke for Yale. He said that, eloquence to one side, the whole question resolved itself into one of motive and did not touch the necessity of party existence. Harvard claimed that men should act because led by party feeling. Yale claimed that men should act because led by reason and conscience...