Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...loth to think that in any case, tact and gentle-manly courtesy will not procure what is desired. The matter, however, in each case is one that is purely personal, and we therefore feel that any public notice of the matter is unfortunate. Many good reasons may exist why an underclassman desires to use his own room on Class Day. These reasons ought to be respected in every particular...
...officers are not as intimate as could be wished. So far as they go, they are charming: each body treats the other with a courtesy that can hardly be excelled. The elective system, among its other benefits, has worked the destruction of the time-honored hostility that used to exist...
...influence that guides him; that each day is "the judgment day"; that in each one of us is Heaven and Hell, not in some distant and far off mysterious land. Such writings, as long as there is room for improvement in human nature, as long as crime and ignorance exist, cannot help doing good...
...unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach uses. It is treason to the republic to send untrained orators into the forum, since the will of many crystallized into laws and oratory is a supreme force to shape the crystals. An unreasoning and ultra-conservative distrust of any ability in any to find or to teach...
...publish an excerpt from a recent criticism of public speaking at Harvard, which is creating wide comment. It certainly is not difficult to account for such a criticism. It is merited and the writer has far from overstated the facts as they exist. It has long been deemed among the students a trivial matter to pursue any regular course of voice instruction and the natural result is that for several years the public speaking has been as a rule execrable. The speaking at commencement would disgrace any other college than that one which so proudly holds such matters light. When...