Word: making
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...confront a community that has been trained under that influence. How are you to deal with them? Of course for a man who wishes to make a speech, the first essential is to have his audience follow him. He must then have something to say. Something which must be said. To say this you will want to make some preparation. I should say that this should be of the simplest form. Think over what you want to say; then select three or four points. Let these form a logical order in your mind if possible. If the logical order...
...forms of intellectual effort public speaking is the most fascinating. And it is the most transitory of all influences. But I urge you to give your thought to oratory. Above all I urge you to use your influence in a cause which shall make it worth using...
Last evening the Junior class held a meeting in Lower Massachusetts to make arrangements for a class dinner. This meeting, in point of attendance, was the largest that '98 has had since the election of class officers its Freshman year...
...unanimously voted to hold the dinner as near March 25 as possible; to empower the chair to appoint a committee of three who shall make all arrangements for the dinner; and to grant this committee the power to choose definitely the day on which the dinner shall be held. The meeting then adjourned...
...cease to marvel at the large ingenuity expended in this creation. Leonard's description of the veteran who has been shot in the lip, and years after tries to tell the story of the "battle ob de Wappahanook," is a piece of blithering nonsense calculated to make a sane man doubt his own sanity, even as he wipes away the tears of laughter. So secure seats at once and drive dull care away and spend an evening with Gilmore and Leonard and the little Yellow Kid in "Hogan's Alley...