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...knows the means by which free speech is made influential in a democracy like ours, will, theoretically at least, take its utility for granted. The question at issue is the time at which the study and practice of the art should be commenced. According to our author, "a man must have a vast number of well-arranged facts and settled opinions before he can speak off-hand with ease." In other words, after years of cloister student-life, in which his learning is being augmented and his opinions digested, the man will one day blossom into a full-grown orator...
...confidently makes trial of its strength in the air. But, alas! the failure. Not till then does it learn its own weakness. The retirement of the study is well enough so far as it goes, but there is nothing like the rostrum for taking the conceit out of a man. The sooner and oftener he gets upon it and is made to learn from the bitterness of defeat the depth of his own ignorance, the more he will prize both study and rostrum as means...
...Saratoga. There is a bitter feeling in the minds of many against the men who had the regatta in charge last year at Springfield; as immediately after the race, Cornell's position in the race was telegraphed over the country as eleventh, when it was perfectly evident to every man on the grand stand that her position was fourth. It is thought by some that a Freshman crew will be sent on, together with the University crew; but it is not at all probable...
...would not equal what many now pay, nor, on the other hand, would it preclude ale, and perhaps claret, from men of moderate means. Dinner could be served in Memorial Hall for the whole College, and supper either furnished in the same manner as breakfast, or, if preferred, a man could prepare his own tea, toast...
...friends, and wines of an evening to large parties. Englishmen coming to this country are much surprised to find that here, as a rule, two students instead of one rent a room and its accompanying bedrooms. Such a system no doubt has its pleasures. With a chum a man who is of social disposition is certain not to be left for any great length of time alone. More visitors are said to come to see two than to see one. Besides, - a most obvious advantage, - the expenses are lessened, so that a man of moderate means with a chum...