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...general character of the music was light, but it was executed with dash and considerable expression. "Koonville Koonlets," by the Mandolin Club, the "Darkies' Parade" by the Banjo Club, and "Boreen," by the Glee Club, were among the best numbers. Even the time-worn "Hannah" made a pronounced hit, although there was little new or original in the verses. The concert was followed by a dance...
...fault that can easily be corrected by our clubs this year. There are many Harvard graduates who have entered the field of music. A selection from one of L. S. Thompson's operettas or the Pudding music or Mason or Atkinson would be vastly more acceptable than the time-worn "Blue Danube" or the badly rendered classics of the Pierian...
...have of engaging lockers and seldom using them. To be sure these men pay for their lockers, but if they do not use them they should not deprive others of using them and ought to give them up. Speaking of gymnasium inconveniences, we cannot help bringing up that time-worn topic-the wretched condition of the shower-bath. The application to in of the term "totally inadequate" is not too strong. Men are crowded, and served to cold water, and treated much worse than the students at a preparatory school. This is the first thing which ought to be attended...
...without hesitation that I venture to refer to so time-worn a subject, but when I see how little attention is paid to a school which has always been one of Harvard's best sources of supply, both of scholars and athletes, I consider it my duty to speak...
...with our annually recurring complaints. Spring puts in an appearance, and with it must come its appropriate complaint. But you will say when you hear this particular complaint, "Oh that is the old one of 'keep off the grass!' " So it is. But why do we utter again the time-worn and useless cry? Truly, only because we think it has neither of these two qualities. Time-worn it may seem to some, however, but thereby only the more to be reverenced; but time-worn-out never. Useless? Not as long as we are addressing men who reflect, and students...