Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action taken by the Athletic committee in regard to the men who were responsible for the disgraceful conduct of the freshman nine at New London last May, will be approved by all. The captain and one other man have been forbidden to take part in any future college athletic contest. The penalty is severe, but in our opinion the offence deserved no lighter punishment. The action of the committee is important even at this late day, for it voices the disapproval expressed so manimously by the college last spring. It will, furthermore, effectually prewent any repetition of the matter...
...Roland Cotton Smith of Trinity Church Boston, will conduct a short Episcopal service in 17 Grays, Wednesday evening, October 23, at 7 o'clock to which all members of the University are cordially invited...
...Theodore C. Williams will conduct prayers from October 7 to October...
...Theodore C. Williams will conduct prayers from October 7 to October...
Oratory is scarcely considered practical in our day and we have comparatively few men of marked rhetorical ability. The reverse was the case in Greece, where oratory flourished at a very early date. The cultivation of oratory was a necessity among the Greeks as every man was obliged to conduct his own case in court. The law demanded that he should plead his own cause, but it was not necessary that he should write his speech. Hence arose the logographos whose business it was to write speeches. It was in this capacity that Lysias was most active...