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...objection, however, was groundless, since the strict training of the oarsmen would effectually prevent any dissipation on their part; but the present case is different. The slight training required of amateur ball-players would be no protection to the poor youths, and yard-sticks would fail to measure the length of our faces, on our return to Cambridge, when we heard that the ruin of the present players (to be sure, a mere trifle in itself) had destroyed the Harvard Nine, and that none but Yale and Princeton were left to struggle for the championship! There can be no doubt...
...attain success, and some who do attain it, and that in the highest degree, are never known to speak in public. And last, but most important as an element of success, is placed honesty, which, considered as policy alone, is a necessity to any one who would for any length of time hold the respect of his clients. As a worthy example of this style of lawyer reference was made to Sumner, "who was true to his own convictions, unawed by popular clamor, or undismayed by private ill-will. If corruption was rife around him, it never stained his garments...
...done is to develop them by exercise and judicious criticism. Difficult as it is to write an article for a college paper on a subject in which we are interested, we know how much more difficult it proves to write a theme or a forensic, of much less length and poorer quality, and we have no reason to think that the case would be different with regard to elocution, especially when we remember what a wretched farce recitation in that study used to be. A step in the right direction was taken when an instructor in elocution was appointed...
EVERY SATURDAY for March 21 has an interesting comparison of Memorial Dining Hall with those of the English Colleges. It exceeds the dining-hall of King's College - the largest in England - by sixty-three feet in length, twenty feet in breadth, and from five to fifteen feet in height...
...length, upon the earth below...