Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with a necessarily limited experience. Reference need only be made to the Debating Club of the Oxford Union to show how successful a similar venture might prove here, if its members were in earnest from the outset. The benefits to be derived are numerous. We should train ourselves to speak clearly and concisely in public, - an acquirement to which too little attention is paid; we should become familiar with the usages of debate, - valuable to almost every one, but more especially to those who intend to practise law; we should learn to reason carefully; and, finally, we should keep alive...
...precedent. In all intercollegiate contests it is always understood that only amateurs can compete, and the absence of the professional element in base ball heretofore should have warned these men that, by becoming members of a professional club, they ceased to be amateurs, and disfranchised themselves, so to speak. In other words, a long standing precedent becomes in effect a law. These facts being known to the Brown men previously to their engagement, refusing to accept their explanation would not have been in the "nature of an ex post facto law." Moreover, ex post facto laws relate only to criminal...
...young men concerned that a few words of explanation should be given to the public, and I venture to trespass upon your space for this purpose, because both my official and my personal relations with most of the members of the party enable me to speak of their character and standing with full knowledge, and also because by the courtesy of the Police Commissioners I was present at the hearing and listened to all the evidence on each side...
...word to me speak...
...speak to thine Azim...