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...conclusion, gentlemen, I cannot sit down without expressing to you my warmest admiration of the scene at which I was permitted to assist this morning. The dignity, the solemnity of that performance has made a most profound impression upon my mind. And above all, when I consider the amount of rhetorical ability, of learning, of philosophical acumen, I cannot help saying to myself, if the young America of to-day can produce such evidences of talent what will be the America of the future...
...Advocate." There are persons who always look upon the gloomy side of every question, no matter how cheerful the other side may be. There are others who are deeply grieved because the world is not grateful for their good services. Both of these classes of people we pity; we cannot sympathize with them...
...requirements, unknown to all but the judges themselves, or else they were unfitted for their responsible positions. Much dissatisfaction was also felt at the withholding of one of the first prizes, especially as the judges declared that they were greatly pleased with the high standard of the speaking. We cannot believe that they really gave as a reason that one speaker was so far above the rest that no other should have a first prize. As the whole matter stands, they have thrown a sleight upon the good sense of an audience certainly not lacking in intelligence, nor deserving...
...course - which was laid out by guesswork - proved, on being surveyed after the races, to be 130 feet 9 inches short of the proper distance. Hence the exact speed of the crews over a course of the proper length can only be guessed at. Altogether the regatta cannot be called an unqualified success...
...plan is this - Don't you think, Mr. Editor, it would work? Of course examinations cannot be arranged so as to please every one; but to me it seems very unjust that some men should have so much less time to prepare them than others have. I know of one case (my own) where the poor fellow has five exams in three days, and the first three days of the first week. Now my cousin has five examinations in three weeks, with plenty of time to prepare them, and time to go to the theatre...