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...account for this great increase in numbers President Eliot finds a difficult task. The most probable cause, however, he assumes to be the fact that the unequalled resources of the University have become better known to the educated public. Along with this increase in number there has been a great increase in the expenditures of the University and the University still has many pressing wants...
...drawing the line between society men and non-society men the task has been rather difficult. As the object is to get at the number of men who besides studying have seen something of the social side of college life, the members of the following social and literary societies were included: the Hasty Pudding, the Pi Eta, the Institute of 1770, the Delta Upsilon, the O. K. and the Signet...
...these forces had been asked to speak. He then introduced Professor James B. Thayer of the Harvard Law School. He took for his text, the title of an article he contributed to a recent number of the Atlantic Monthly: "A People Without Law." We are undertaking an unprecedented task, that of civilizing a nation. The Indians have lost all the civil society which they once had. The change has been gradual. We have placed over them a little despot - the Indian Agent. We depose and dispose of their chiefs as we like and we govern them without any any system...
...outdoor work later now begins. The candidates for the crew and Mott Haven team in particular have a great deal to do in the next three months. The crew men have already been at work for some time with well directed energy. They seem to understand pretty well the task which they have to accomplish. The Mott Haven men should also begin hard work at once. The places of some of the best men on last year's team, men who could always be depended upon to win points, must be filled. If the successes of last year...
...last number, and the great task of the orchestra, was Beethoven's seventh Symphony, which is popularly considered nearly, if not quite, the equal of the famous fifth. The symphony in all its motives is essentially a dance rhythm. It contains many beautiful passages for solo instruments, notably that for second horn in the next to the last movement and one for clarionet near the beginning. The orchestra did not seem in their best form in this last number; several careless mistakes marred the rendering of the programme from a critical standpoint, but these came in minor details so that...