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"Well, every man is not qualified to lecture. In my estimation a man should be a pleasant speaker and be able to put his points so the class can get them down on paper. Some distinction should be made between important and unimportant matter. For instance, today I tried to...
It is reported that the recent mutinous conduct of the cadets at the Annapolis Naval Academy is in great part owing to the bad blood that has existed at the naval academy for a comparatively long period between the superintendent and cadets. The proceedings, as any observer of naval academy...
As to the matter of putting a desk and railing in the auditor's room - these repairs were found to be absolutely necessary, since the auditor did not have sufficient office room in which to transact the necessary business. There was no place up stairs in which to keep securely...
But for true imagery his description of the dancer is supreme. Byron speaks of the "maid of the ever twinkling feet," but Byron never could have told about "the nervous movements and demonstrations which indicated the bewitching power of the music to which the Terphsichoreans glided across the floor below...
How cleverly does this writer dispel with a sweep of the pen all the arguments of the ministry against dancing. "If the Rev. Mr. Harris," he says, "who so grossly insulted all devotees of dancing at his church in this city last Sunday night, would lower himself enough to look...