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...affirm, and he shakes his head violently as in negation, or he repels when he means to appeal, - or again, he has not learned the value of repose, and he keeps his hands and head going till you are worn out with the very sight of his ineffectual labor to have you seize what he says. These are common faults and are met with constantly, and they are faults that with a little patient practice under competent guidance could have been avoided. Then there are the flagrant errors in pronunciation that we hear on all sides. Indeed, it is said...
...Extra labor at boat house...
...conservative members even. The test of practical application would make theorists a little more relieving in bringing forth their petted doctrines, but if then proposed and adopted, the college could locate the responsibility. Let it not be thought that we intend to disparage the sincerity or the labor of last year's Conference Committee. We only say that under the old system the wants of the coming year cannot be fully satisfied, and that some change in the matter ought to be made...
...word of advice to the captain of the eleven. There is no reason why '90 should not have a foot-ball eleven of which she may feel proud, provided that the captain gets all the candidates for the team out on the field immediately. '90 will labor under no such disadvantages with which '89 had to contend last year. In the first place, the prospect of a game with Yale should act as the greatest kind of an incentive for work, hard work and not fooling. Secondly, the 'varsity team will afford considerable practice, besides furnishing an innumerable number...
...whom the faculty has chosen to fill the vacancy. Mr. Hayes is an elocutionist of well-known merit, but above all, his capacity as a teacher will make his work here eminently successful. As for the study of elocution, no one need shrink from undertaking it because too much labor would be required of him. Preparation, of course, is necessary if any success is to be gained, but one can always proportion his work so that he can profit something, no matter how little that may be. That oft-given reason, too much work, does not apply to the question...