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...college essays of both classical and scientific students for eight years, as he had had, he could not help noting the power the study of Greek gave in English sentence making ; that, while there are men of letters, like the late Dr. Holland, who have a natural gift of style without Greek culture, it is nevertheless true that, to master English idiom, the average man must be more or less familiar with Greek. Profs. Young, Cameron, Orrks, Winans, Libbey, Hunt and West also spoke...
Wesleyan presented a strong team, and played in good style. Their rushers broke through continually in the first half. They tackled surely and passed well. The kicking of the halfbacks, Saxe and Beatty, was also remarkable. The playing off-side, which Wesleyan has down to a science, was quite effective, and by it many of Moffat's kicks were stopped...
...which was selected for the experiment seemed most unfortunate, for we lost our stroke and so many changes were made in the boat that the crew was finally selected only about three weeks before the Columbia race. Yet it has very generally been conceded that in point of style and finish the crew of 1883 was inferior to no eight Harvard has ever had. The experiment certainly seemed a success. This year a new plan has been adopted,-a compromise between the old one of training the whole year and that tried last year of training for only six months...
...scorner of all that is low and common to the masses. But we think his fame will rather rest on his poetry than on his criticism. He is distinguished among all his fellow poets by a far sweeter diction than they possess and by a calm, elevated, thoughtful style. Fortunately, not withstanding the indifference of the college authorities, arrangements can be made with Mr. Arnold to give a lecture here on Monday night, which is the only one left at his disposal during his stay here, and he has kindly offered either to deliver one of his lectures or read...
...only change from the conventional style of class reports is in the omission of the measurements of the class. "These tables have been necessarily so imperfect and so nearly worthless as standards of comparison that I have felt justified in discarding them, notwithstanding the violation of precedent...