Word: young
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...first requisite in public speaking, he said, is thorough acquaintance with every phase of the subject. The precept which the young lawyer is most apt to disregard is the importance of knowing his opponent's side of the case with the same thoroughness as his own. Clearness, simplicity of language and conciseness are invaluable qualities in public speaking. The last-named in particular is an indispensable asset in stump speaking. A good rule is to have something to say, say it briefly, and sit down...
President Eliot will be the principal speaker at the dinner of the New England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy to be held at Young's Hotel at 7 o'clock tonight. This dinner is to celebrate the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the formal opening of the academy. The business meeting and informal reception of the association will be held at 6.30 o'clock...
What Harvard undergraduates need today as much as anything else is a centralized system of advisers; preferably young men in the Faculty, or even members of the graduate schools, who are familiar with Harvard life and capable of judging of the needs and possibilities of the men assigned to their care. To be most efficient the board should be large enough to give one adviser not more than ten Freshmen each year...
...Journalism is in its babyhood. It needs new men, new energy, enthusiasm and earnest conviction above all. I saw in one young group of Columbia law students three or four men at least out of a dozen that would make useful newspaper workers. I believe that in devoting their lives to the fights of the people through journalism, these young students could find greater happiness than in selling their energies to corporation fights in the court-room...
...Already it is possible for one newspaper writer in this country to talk to ten millions of Americans in a day. If the young graduate were taken back to old Athens, he would not miss a chance to have his say in the public square. The editorial column of a great newspaper is the public square of today. The man who talks in that column has the opportunity of the orator that addressed the ancient Athenian crowd...