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...needs and shamed into adequately providing for them. What could we gain from college instruction in oratory? Every one will acknowledge that the elements which constitute a good speaker cannot be furnished us by any teaching whatever, and that the most that can be done is to develop them by exercise and judicious criticism. Difficult as it is to write an article for a college paper on a subject in which we are interested, we know how much more difficult it proves to write a theme or a forensic, of much less length and poorer quality, and we have...
...some such plan could be made practicable, it would certainly improve both the University and the class crews, - the University, because the prospect of rowing at the spring races would serve to develop it early in the season, which is well known to be an advantage; the class crews, inasmuch as it would present to each individual member a higher goal to be worked for. So that the height of ambition for a man that stood no chance for the University would not have been reached when he had succeeded in getting on his class crew; while a lasting advantage...
...that no young man who aspires to a high standard of excellence should venture into public life. If the republic is now suffering from maladministration, the fault is theirs (if such a class there be) who, while having the wisdom and the character to guide her aright, decline to develop their qualities more palpably to the public eye. "There is such a thing as being so fastidious about means as never to be able to reach a practical end. There may likewise be a form of conditional sluggishness which covers an aversion to the labors and obligations incident to successful...
...horror of all reasonable people; others stave off the evil hour until they fall in love, when, inspired, I suppose, by the object of their sonnets, they often astonish every one but themselves by the excellence of their verses, just as madmen have been known to develop powers of which their hours of sanity showed no trace; others, again, are attacked by the passion for versification at an advanced, perhaps a senile age, when they make themselves happy and their friends miserable by long letters in doggerel. In a word, all men write poetry at some time, and a great...
...curious fact that this new movement principally affects by its two phases the two extremes of society. Certain of the most learned and brilliant writers of the day develop and expound their theory of culture in its aesthetic direction, and as opposed to or as including religion; while, according to more than one authority, the lower classes have begun to discuss at least one side of the question, - that which concerns religion as it is now taught. Scepticism and contempt for the "theologians" have, we are told, long prevailed among them, until, in the natural course of events, they have...