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...distant past an intercollegiate debate usually consisted of a series of well-drilled flights of oratory, the object of which was to dodge adroitly an ever shifting "burden of proof". The far-flung reputation of Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech undoubtedly impressed schoolboy orators with the desirability of mastering this style; but it has made the task of training a college team to speak simply and directly vastly more difficult. It is recorded that one of the recent coaches of University debaters made persistently eloquent candidates speak in trial debates with a waste paper basket under each arm. Less...
With the unemotional conciseness of a consular report, this book gives the record of his amazingly versatile and far-flung career. An early passion for travel sent him to Tunis; he was meditating a trip to central Asia when one of those remarkable accidents which seemed always to be happening to intelligent and well-connected young Englishmen 40 years ago diverted him to the west coast of Africa, with a letter to Explorer Stanley in his pocket...
...Allies, and a defeat of one of them is the defeat of all. If the fighting of the war is not coordinated, it is bound to result in local successes by the Germans, who coordinate everything--who control every detail and every portion of their far-flung line from a central and single source. --Boston Transcript...
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