Word: convincingness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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To the three Harvard speakers is due the most praise. They showed themselves thoroughly prepared upon all sides of the question, and they evinced admirable quickness and judgment. Their speeches were calm, logical, and convincing. At the start they defined the point at issue clearly, and throughout the debate they...
Steward's form is graceful and convincing.
It was an occasion to be proud of. Not only was the opera given in a thoroughly artistic manner, with new scenery, fresh costumes, andc., but there was a hearty spirit of earnestness that pervaded every member of the company-and that is much in these times. Miss Clara Lane...
"What I hear about our debates is truly surprising and pleases me beyond measure. The men who are heard in the college debates have positive reality and naturalness, and these qualities are always most effective. How often some of us have heard 'Be natural,' 'Meet with force the resistance before...
May I speak a word of caution, very likely quite unnecessary, against accepting Mr. Roosevelt's violent arraignment of Harvard College opinion in your columns as representative of the general position of the graduates, or for that matter, as a fair example of the tone usually taken on this subject...