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...most effective speakers employ the simplest methods. They must have something to say, they must mean what they say, and they must say it so that it can be heard. Sound arguments and plain facts carry more votes than party abuse or flights of rhetoric. Honest purpose, backed by character, does not always succeed, yet never more than today has the sincere advocacy of a cause a better chance of hearing...
Pointing out how strong was the influence of the scholar in Italy during the revival of learning, Dr. Sandys went on to show how natural it was that virtue, which had meant manliness in the Roman Age and goodness in the Middle Ages, in this period came to mean mainly a knowledge of Latin. The theory of education in the Middle Ages was unfolded for us by the treatises of Aeneas Sylvius, and its practice illustrated by the writings of Vittorino Guarino and others. But these men were theorists; far greater were the two teachers who exemplify the practice...
...paid on gradually, or made gradually as at present. In the way all those benefited would be contributing some part of the expense. It may be suggested that the Stadium was built by the present classes, and the expense should be stood by them. This is rather a mean argument, and if used, the answer is that the students did not decide to build the Stadium, but those higher in authority...
...Grenfell is to give at the Union tonight? No one who heard his lecture at Sanders Theatre a couple of years ago, and saw the photographs of scenery and men, will stay away; but there are other students for whom the names of Grenfell and of Labrador now mean little, and to them I would say that this is a precious opportunity, not only to increase their knowledge of our continent, but to enlarge their human sympathies. Dr. Grenfell is first of all a man, a man of the eternal heroic type; and merely to get the impression which...
...sluices. On top of the dam a roadway will be constructed to replace the Craigie bridge, and a parkway of seven acres will be laid out. The dam will turn the estuary of the Charles river into a fresh water basin, maintaining a level two feet lower than mean high water...