Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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GRADUATES often complain that they never received adequate instruction in that most important branch, Elocution, while in college, and now feel their deficiency when called upon to speak in public. The fact that out of the twenty or twenty-five Freshmen selected as meriting the right even to compete for the ten Lee prizes, only six received any, clearly shows that an ability to read common prose well and understandingly is a rare accomplishment among them...
...accordance with a traditionary and time-honored custom; but because it was time-honored, we cannot believe that it was entirely the fault of the students, and therefore the removal of the venerable instructor to a field where his great abilities will be better appreciated may have been the right and proper thing to do. But this does not make it at all clear that there ought to be no instruction whatever in this particular study. How can this growing evil, then, be remedied? Certainly not by the present action of the College. For just as matters in that quarter...
This is an initiatory step in the right direction, and a similar frankness in all boating transactions would do much toward rooting out those dishonest trickeries which are beginning to make their appearance...
...truth, the Goody did say something the next morning about "thim nasty empty bottles" - "nasty" to her, I fear, because they were empty - and the broken glass trodden into the carpet. And as I think the matter over, I remember that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot at his head as he disappeared through the door. All this is a little misty; but what followed is much clearer. I remember I sank into an arm-chair...
...though no one would have guessed it from his bent body and trembling hands as he sat there in the dying firelight) leader of the trembling crowd of Freshmen on the Delta on one of the first nights of the year, and given "warning," and followed the spinning ball right among the ranks of the Sophomores, coming out victorious, though with torn clothes and covered with scratches. I remember he seemed to impart some of his fire to me, for a patriotic thrill passed through me as he told of the meeting held by Adams, Otis, Hancock, and others...