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...games which take place Saturday evening, January 26, in the Worcester skating rink. With the exception of the half-mile and 600 yards novice race, all the events are open. The track is fourteen laps to the mile with raised corners and the men will have ample opportunity to test their speed. These games will give the runners experience which ought to be of great value in the more important games of the B. A. A. First and second prizes are given in each event. The Harvard entries are as follows...
...arrangements for the Harvard Yale debate, to be held tonight in Sanders Theatre, have been completed by the committee. The sale of seats has been large and when the speakers ascend the platform they should face an audience which will test the capacity of the theatre. The Radcliffe Union will attend in a body and a large delegation from the Wellesley debating and literary societies will be present...
...book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part of the book did exercise this influence upon him, but that just as soon as Trilby began to be hypnotised, he began to wake up, and from that time the book...
...larger scholarship. Possibly this distribution might be defended if we were sure that the higher standing in his classes was a reliable indication of his ability; but who believes in the trustworthiness of A's and B's, secured in different courses and under different instructors, as a test between...
...walk, who creep, some even who sit down. All of us are sometimes discouraged and are tempted to throw up the race because it is so hard, or so monotonous. Let us remember that no great thing can be quickly accomplished and that perhaps the truest test of character is to work hard and well without a hope of reward or approval, and let us be patient and strong in running the race that is set before each...