Word: evening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...compromise which can hardly affect seriously the interests of either occasion. If the eight management could arrange to have the race one day earlier, that is Thursday, the 24th, instead of on the 25th, the crew would still have seventeen days on the Hudson (counting from Wednesday, June 2), even if there were no rowing on Sundays. It is hard to believe that the difference between seventeen and eighteen days at Poughkeepsie can affect the chances of the race. With Thursday as the new date, the Class Day exercises could then be moved to Friday evening and Saturday and there...
...contained in the communication published this morning that the date of the boat race be changed to an earlier one will hardly commend itself to the rowing management. The last days before the race are considered of such extreme importance that not a single day can well be sacrificed, even for the sake of the additional spectators that such a change would bring to Poughkeepsie. Moreover the date has already been agreed to by the three crews, and even if they should be willing to change it, several baseball dates would need rearrangement and more or less confusion would result...
...their fellow men. You represent a race which, while it does not produce the first quality of oratory as yet, still has the vigor and energy of oratory for its own. We can only admire, not closely imitate, the fine oratory of other peoples. I have seen Victor Hugo, even though he read his speech, cause in his audience the rise and swell of an enthusiasm of applause such as I have never seen in an English-speaking audience...
...form. Think over what you want to say; then select three or four points. Let these form a logical order in your mind if possible. If the logical order be impossible, take some other natural order. Then think out for each of these points some good illustration or story. Even a little humor at times is good, but be careful how you use it. While you are making the acquaintance of your audience it is well to say something that will make them feel that you are human...
...large ingenuity expended in this creation. Leonard's description of the veteran who has been shot in the lip, and years after tries to tell the story of the "battle ob de Wappahanook," is a piece of blithering nonsense calculated to make a sane man doubt his own sanity, even as he wipes away the tears of laughter. So secure seats at once and drive dull care away and spend an evening with Gilmore and Leonard and the little Yellow Kid in "Hogan's Alley...