Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...members of the Senior class have, as a whole, been very lax in filling out their subscription blanks to the Class Fund. There has been plenty of time for each man to think over how much he can afford, and there should be no further delay. Unless each and every member makes sure of sending in his subscription immediately the consequent smallness of the fund will be a serious handicap to the class in the future. No one is expected to give more than he can afford, and no man should hesitate for fear his subscription should seem too small...
...hour. It treats of two poor artists, Pepe and Pepito. Don Manuel returns from Cuba very wealthy, and takes Pepe as his nephew to live with him in his magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and disputes himself, and is always entangled in the mazes of his vocabulary. His efforts...
Before discussing his main topic, however, Mr. Bryan emphasized the importance of public speaking today. He said that he believed it to be the duty of every citizen to train himself to think clearly and to speak accurately on the questions of the day and that for this reason public speaking is of the utmost importance. There are two essentials for the effective public-speaker--information and earnestness. He must be thoroughly familiar with his subject and must believe firmly in what he says. Important aids to essentials are clearness of expression and brevity of statement, the one because...
...physical efficiency of the athlete, and if strawberries in December and aspargus in February do not particularly promote that efficiency, I cannot see why they are necessary or even desirable. A man who is taking hard exercise needs good food, and plenty of it, but that food can, I think, be given him at the training table for much less than is now being spent. JUNIOR...
...which he wrote. For the spirit which inspired his poetry was that of the sweetness and peace and good will for which the whole world longs. Walt Whitman, with a genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America.' And, so, at the close of a century from his birth, in every quarter of our land, America is celebrating the birthday of him who did so much for her. Everywhere...