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...Very few can speak "to the line." Almost intallibly a speaker will devote too much time to the introduction. The audience will judge of you by the length of time you devote to each portion, thinking the speaker will give most time to what he considers most important; consequently impress your great central idea by giving the most time...
...success or failure of a crew's finances lies with the collectors. It is hard to expect a man to give five dollars unless he is asked for it, and it is the duty of the collectors to ask for it, and ask for it urgently. We cannot impress upon them too strongly the need of immediate, energetic action. On them depends to a great degree the success of their crew...
...Icelandic Sagas differ from European literature both in their style and in the circumstances which prompted their composition. Iceland, during her development lived in peace. The Icelanders were proud of their traditions and thus old tales were preserved in their integrity. Consequently the Sagas impress the reader with a belief in their truthfulnes...
...services in Appleton Chapel in memory of Adelbert Shaw, though simple, did not fail to impress those present with a sense of the true meaning of the loss of their comrade. One could not leave the chapel without feeling that beside the occasion for sorrow there was occasion for gratitude that such a character had been allowed to be amongst the community, and to spread abroad its sunny, manly influence. Every seat in Appleton Chapel was filled by members of the University, eager to express by their presence their appreciation of their loss, and their sympathy with those...
...Glee, the Banjo and the Mandolin Clubs have accomplished not a little on their Western trip, and from all that we can gather from newspapers and other outside sources they did more to impress the public with the true character of Harvard than we had any reason even to hope. The accounts of the concerts in the various cities were always flattering, although much to our amusement, a Chicago paper states that "it is a great pity that there were so few college songs on the programme and so much that was foreign to college life," adding...