Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Another topic of importance, debating, is treated by Mr. E. R. Lewis. He clearly shows that undergraduate dislike of debaters is based upon misunderstanding; and that the Harvard system seeks to produce no ranting, narrow, or insincere orators, but speakers who are temperate, well-informed, and honest. His arguments, though they will interest the serious student, will hardly convince those whose aversion to any form of intellectual contest has made debating unfashionable. These, who are the very ones to be persuaded, may possibly be won by the formation of new debating societies, or by some ingeniously contrived rewards...
...exist here alone but prevail, to a greater or less degree, throughout the whole country, and they will continue to do so until men actuated by higher motives and acting from a sense of civic duty will take at least sufficient interest in politics to insure the election of honest and able men to public office. It is the college-trained men who are best qualified to start such a movement in the communities in which they live, and who should do so. Here is given the opportunity to get such an insight into practical politics as will enable...
...authors much real instruction in the art of writing. More than half of the sixteen pages of the present paper deserve praise solely for general, but not invariable, correctness of style (while after all should be taken for granted in any paper of any good college) and for pleasant, honest feeling. Otherwise they are mediocre...
...whole, the number is not without promise, but honest effort will be necessary to maintain an honorable tradition
...attempt to write, being poorly equipped. "Their Salad Days" seemed to me more typical of college fiction generally than of the Monthly in particular. The editorial is good in plan, but conscious and too literary. It suggests in possibility a little talk about spring that should be simpler, more honest, and clothed in the language and symbols of today,--this editorial, let us say, ten years after