Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Heeding these directions, because they have appealed forcibly to the common sense of those who heard them, Harvard men have become more impressive and convincing on the platform. These qualities have helped immeasurably to our success; and we like to do the things in which we are successful. Hence interest in debating and speaking has grown remarkably not only with us, but among colleges in general. Harvard sets the pace in things intellectual in the college world...
...help in the question of the debate in which I took part. Only a few days previous to this application, I had a letter from an Illinois college asking for some directions, and last year I got a dozen or more such requests. In the constant growth of college interests, debating and speaking will have a chief place, and the success of the work already done in these matters is heartily recognized and appreciated. The increase in debating interest and the credit which the college will receive for it have only just begun...
...graduate of the college, I feel grateful for the incentive given to me for meeting men in the discussion of questions that should interest every man in a republic like ours. I look with earnest hope to the enlargement and progression of the work in public speaking which is doing so much for our College...
Thanking you for your interest in the matter and generous offer, we remain...
...whose good they are working, can make, to give them our united sympathy and support from now on? A critical, conservative attitude is the only safe one to maintain during the early stages of such an important enterprise as this, but it must not be thought that interest and even enthusiasm are incompatible with conservatism. The very names of the graduates who are interested in the project and have it in charge are assurance positive that no rash steps will be taken. Let us, who are younger, not feel bound to lay too much stress on the side...