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...Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm out of the fashionable crush before President Terra took the rostrum. Their empty seats touched off pinwheels of rumor that "Paraguay has withdrawn from the Conference! She is afraid it will try to stop her war with Bolivia" (TIME, July...
...last thirty three years. At every commencement since 1899 he has donned his blue court coat with gold buttons, his white waistcoat, and top hat, and has marched in the annual June academic procession to open the ceremonies with a blow of his official sword on the rostrum and the traditional words, "The assembly will now come to order...
...extraordinary statements of Governor Rolph on the subject of lynching, its advantages and prospects, have brought forth the natural reaction from the press and rostrum, so that the air is quivering with an unusually heavy load of resounding phrases and rhythmic sentiments. The preservation of law and order, respect for the customary procedures of justice, condemnation of mob violence, have all been dragged out of the oratorical closet and fitted to the bow. And very rightly, too. These social attitudes are hard to build up and equally hard to hold; they are well worth emphatic support. But a closer examination...
...from vital accomplishment. Certain topics can best be treated in large lectures; attendance at those should be no more compulsory than graduate attendance at classes in Oxford or Cambridge, and there need not be nearly so many of them as at present. Most material now conveyed from the rostrum would be better obtained from books or discussed in seminars. For the advanced student, the seminar is decidedly the most stimulating method of study and discussion, and Harvard should use it far more. The choice of a field, both for general study and thesis work, needs to be greatly widened. More...
After reading this pleasant book of travel you will be more prone to appreciate the latent qualities, and feel more kindly towards the sometimes stern, dogmatical figure on the rostrum in your lecture hall...