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...like so many things, begins at home, and not until the Council directs its appeal to the talent which lies now dormant in the various Houses can the Debating Council hope to plant deep roots in the soil of the college. It may be pleasant to suck the honeyed nectar of applause from local Junior Leagues from time to time, but only from audiences of Harvard students can come the support which the Council needs. It the Council should aim its rays at this untapped source, it would immeasurably improve its chance of growing to full stature and providing...
...perpetual feast of nectar's sweets...
Thus spake Roosevelt's right-hand man, Donald Richberg, a few days ago. Yet neither doubting Thomases, Tories, old guardists, nor even the few quite respectable anti-now dealers have drawn sufficient nectar from this dictum to plunge into the requested attitude of confidence...
...house of a millionaire on the Dover Road, England; the master of the house spends his life trying to aid the oppressed and the love lorn. American ideas of the English are surprisingly amusing, and at times highly annoying, but any breath of an English accent is as nectar to the American public and per se assures the picture of success, as is borne out by the reactions of the audience in the present case. So also any joke which the audience does not catch, goes as an extremely subtle Anglicism and draws hearty guffaws...
...bring up the tail end of the list but have been completely outclassed by their stronger rivals. Wine sales total a mere six, while Beer has a meagre sum of three to its credit. Scared away by the cost of Champagne, students have only made two purchases of the "Nectar of the Gods," in the two months since repeal. Port and Sherry head the list of wines and in the Champagne division "Heldsick" and "Chateau Rheims" divide the two points...