Word: live
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these self-imposed duties of the clubs, which they have so well performed in the past, are like a sail without wind if the clubs carry on the work alone. The greater responsibility rests upon the individuals in the student body. It is they who must arouse a live interest in debating and make the work of the debating clubs effective by attending their meetings and speaking at every opportunity. For in almost nothing else does continued practice count for so much as in public speaking. Repeated appearances before audiences and long practice in thinking rapidly and clearly while standing...
...complete list of men finally agreed upon by the committee will be published in a few days. All the state delegations are in, with the exception of three or four states, which will probably be heard from today. The committee have been especially desirous of getting men who really live in the states which they are to represent in the convention. This has been very difficult in a few instances because there are not enough men in the University from some of the distant states to fill out the state delegations...
Such education will allow the economy of work, life, and impulse, that shall make men live up to the very best that is within them...
...Better risk loss of truth than chance of error." But we have no evidence that dupery through hope is worse than dupery through error. A sceptic, by requiring absolute proof before he believes, may cut himself off from all future good. We have a right to believe any hypothesis live enough to tempt the will...
...closing, the lecturer said that much can be forgiven a man who loves as Whitman did. While temporary evil may result from his poems, it will finally be overshadowed and obliterated by the good. His better side will long live to bless, ennoble and cheer the hearts...