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...national legislation," and the disputants, for Yale, E. R. Lamson '93, F. E. Donnelly '93, H. S. Cummings L. S.; for Harvard, Carl Vrooman Sp., E. H. Warren '95, A. P. Stone '93. President Eliot spoke briefly of the inability of public men to speak forcibly and of the need of just such public contests as these debates for bringing out this ability. Speakers generally address audiences which are on their side from the beginning and thus lose the great benefit of meeting an opponent face to face, which is after all the great thing to be desired. American audiences...
...acknowledge that the legislation thus far has brought about an increase in earnings, an increase in traffic and a general improvement. Mr. Depew and Mr. Ingalls, both prominent railway presidents, express the sentiments of most men of authority in railroad business in acknowledging that the public and the railway need legislation that shall obtain complete control over these vast corporations, these vast concentrations of capital...
...took about five years for Prof. Goodwin and Prof. White to arouse interest enough to set on foot preparations for the first play, but when once interest was aroused it had no bounds. Well knowing that to-day many feel as I do about this, I think that I need only mention the matter, to set the ball in motion without delay. It would no longer be an experiment. Other colleges have repeatedly given plays, and in every case success has been the result...
...undergraduates their only opportunities to speak (outside of English VI), the Harvard Union has the recognition and encouragement of the faculty, some of whom are the constant advisors of its officers. What more could a new society do? And if a new society could do no more, what need is there...
...view of the joint debates with Yale, Which now promise to be an established feature of the college winter, the need of a really good debating society in the university seems to me to be more apparent than ever. Though the Harvard Union may the best it can, and though there are some undeniably good men in it, it does not satisfy the university at all. To begin with its members are elected on a totally wrong principle. Any man, who speaks twice from the floor, is at once taken into the society. It does not depend on the character...