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...following extracts from an article in the Weekly Magazine on an old subject may be of interest to our readers...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -A few days ago, a communication in your columns called attention to the state and work of the "Total Abstinence League" at Harvard, and a few more words on the same subject will not be out of place. In a university of the size of Harvard there is necessarily more or less intemperance, and it is obvious that a body of men who band themselves together in the right way may exert a good influence on the whole student body, so far as this question is concerned. But has this association with its formidable name...
...meeting of the Tennis Association last night a report was presented showing the receipts of the past year to have been $269.90, expenses $240.90, leaving a balance of $29.00. The executive committee of the association was empowered to draw up a new constitution subject to the ratification of the association. G. R. Agassig, '84, was elected president for the ensuing year, H. A. Taylor, '86, vice-president ; G. W. Hoyt, '85, secretary and treasurer, and the following stewards: A. Curtis, '84, Mr. Peirson, '85, Mr. Minot...
...prizes, of one hundred dollars, and fifty dollars, for short essays on the best methods of appointing executive officers, and selecting laborers in municipal governments, and the terms and tenures most suitable to municipal offices. Competition is open to all who may choose to write, and the whole subject or any branch thereof may be treated. It is expected that the essays will be examined by President Francis A. Walker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Shaler of Harvard University, and Richard H. Dana, Esq., of Boston. Accepted essays will become the property of the Association and will probably...
...says: "One reads this speech with a kind of shame in thinking that there is not probably a single English man of letters who could have delivered so good a discourse; not one scholar, poet or novelist who could stand up and speak so well, even on such a subject as Henry Fielding. Several there are no doubt who could have written as well; indeed, it is a most promising and fertile theme; but to write is English and to speak is American...