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...present endeavor of the Speakers' Club to form a confederation of all College organizations interested in public speaking, appears to be a step in the right direction. Such an association should provide a common forum where undergraduates may discuss the problems constantly arising in University life. It would, moreover, establish a freer, larger, and more pleasant training field from which to draw the University debaters, and, best of all, it would accustom many men to speaking in public...
...Constantinople, infuriated by the exorbitant tariff on champagne, resolves to pursuade the Sultan to give a coming out ball for his daughter, the Princess Diana. When all the nobility of Turkey is gathered together in the ballroom, they plan to below up the imperial palace, end tyranny, and establish free trade...
...term "apology" is not really adequate, for Pascal was more than an apologist for religion; he aimed not only at writing an abstract defence of religion, but also at converting the atheists and re-establishing true Christianity against those who partially confused it with paganism. The originality in Pascal's point of view lies in this: from a consideration of human nature he shows that communion with the Christian God is necessary for a man to re-establish harmony within his being. Thus a rational connection is shown between man's nature and his spiritual life. This view we must...
...Endowed with an extraordinary memory, a constructive legal mind not surpassed by living man, a deep-rooted sense of justice, he would have become a legal writer of great eminence; and he is famous for his short legal treatises in the Harvard Law Review, which he helped to establish. But his main influence on the law was excited by his personality--by opening the minds of future lawyers to the great principles...
...three-year degree is too well established as an institution to be easily changed; and it probably is to the interest of many undergraduates to finish their College course in three years. But the injury which the three-year degree is working in our athletic teams might be very much lessened if the eligibility rules were so changed as to permit men who finish their College course in three years to remain in athletics another year while studying for the degree of A. M. in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. To establish eligibility on its original wide basis...