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Assistant Secretary of State Wharton is a lover of base ball, and in 1867 69 pitched for a Harvard nine. A broken finger joint is among the scars he carries.- Harpers Weekly...
...recall with pleasure our association with him in our college life. As a student he took high rank among us by diligent and careful work. At the same time he entered actively into the sports and into the social and religious life of the college. But it was by his personal qualities that he won the affections of his immediate friends and the respect of all. His life was marked by the high purposes, the honesty, and the purity of a christian character. His bearing was manly and kindly toward...
...higher education in other cities and states. will make themselves known to him at their earliest convenience. We have abundant reason as Harvard men for special pride in the Institute and its work, since its founder and present head, and two of the annual directors of former years are among the most eminent and honored teachers of the college...
...negative of the question was opened by L. McK. Garrison L. S. who said that Corporal Tanner was a noisy demagogue who had made confusion among the Veterans and was removed because he was embarrassing the administration...
Oratory is scarcely considered practical in our day and we have comparatively few men of marked rhetorical ability. The reverse was the case in Greece, where oratory flourished at a very early date. The cultivation of oratory was a necessity among the Greeks as every man was obliged to conduct his own case in court. The law demanded that he should plead his own cause, but it was not necessary that he should write his speech. Hence arose the logographos whose business it was to write speeches. It was in this capacity that Lysias was most active...