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...business. For a lawyer to succeed, many qualifications are necessary. First of all come industry and patience. Law is not an easy mistress and he soonest learns her smile who reads incessantly and carefully, and at the same time brings to his reading a thoughtful mind and a habit of discrimination. Then, too, in addressing the jury, care should be given more to matter than manner. The most successful jury lawyers are those who adopt in talking to the jury not an oratorical manner and tone, but an easy, conversational tone. Earnestness, too, should be aimed...
...body, the slide and the arm work. Mr. Keyes' idea of using the legs is that the slide should be started at the very beginning of the stroke, and stopped when the body is at the perpendicular; but he is determined that no one shall get into a habit of kicking out his slide and leaving his body out at the full reach. This is a very easy habit to get into and hard to get out of. One or two Harvard crews have got into it in the past. It is very much easier to get into this fault...
...until after the mid-years. Meanwhile some letters of remonstrance have been publicly written, but no result has been apparent. When sifted to the bottom much of the objection to tug-of-war seems to be in the manner of training. The candidates have been in the habit of preparing themselves by practice pulls which are in reality almost as much of a strain as the actual contests. Instead of this the men ought to undertake a regular system of exercise, just as much as runners or jumpers and, as we understand, this was the method of training proposed...
...Conference this year is proving itself more than ever a literary society. The new habit of having original initiation parts by new members arouses interest and enlivens the meetings more than ever before...
...launch is laid up for the winter at Sawley's yard, South Boston. The boat is an expensive one to run. She has a coil boiler which has a habit of bursting about every other day. The virtue of being able to get up steam in a few minutes has to be paid for by an uncertainty of keeping it up. The cost of keeping the boat in repair is fully equal to that of running her. She is not a good boat for cold weather. There is no house over the running gear, so that the many water pipes...