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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...show their skill in rebuttal. At this trial the number of candidates might be reduced to six. The men thus chosen might then take sides-three on a side-work up the question and enter a final competition which should take the form of a regular debate with main and rebuttal speeches by each competitor. Such a system we feel certain will guard against any unwise choice, will make all of the contestants feel that they have a more thorough trial, and will not be open to the manifest objections which we have pointed out in the present system...
...Pleasant room on the first floor, suitable for a club table of 6, 8, or 10; also one room suitable for a party of four. Single meals served in the main dining room. Apply at The Valhalla, 12 Dunster street...
...Pleasant room on the first floor, suitable for a club table of 6, 8, or 10; also one room suitable for a party of four. Single meals served in the main dining room. Apply at The Valhalla, 12 Dunster street...
...Christmas number of the "Advocate," with its special cover, is decidedly readable throughout. An intelligent and well balanced criticism on Richard Harding Davis is the first main article of the number. "A Bottle of Alcohol" is somewhat unpleasant in subject but shows great facility in short story writing. A Christmas story called "A Gift of Gifts," will interest the regular readers of the Advocate, because they may see in it promises for the future. Its merits are so striking that one feels that time will obliterate the faults it exhibits...
...Ordinarily he would have immediately prepared for the priesthood, but his desire for honor still kept him at Cambridge, where he obtained the oratorship. At the death of King James, however, all his hopes of securing a position at court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke, he obtained a small recforship, and in this period of consecration he was engaged only the last three years of his life, during which he wrote the poems which have made him so well-known...