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...they who would receive the most benefit from the study and practice derived from a thorough course in elocution, show the least inclination for such study. It is only by awakening a popular interest and enthusiasm in oratory that it can be brought home properly to the students who neglect this branch of study. They can be induced to turn their attention to it. The Shakespeare club would be well calculated to arouse an interest among the students and bring before all in a very interesting, manner the power of properly applied oratory. While an Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Association would...
...point to attend. Let Holden be so crowded as to necessitate an adjournment to Boylston. Let the officers of the Association feel that they have the support of the college, and that their efforts are appreciated, and try, though tardily, to atone for the disgrace of last night's neglect...
...captain in his efforts to wrest victory from the very jaws of defeat. If these words go unheeded, and defeat once more be our lot, it will be only just that the shame of it fall on those men who have contributed to bring it on, by their shameful neglect and inactivity...
...ninth generation, upon whom greater lights have arisen, still worship at the same shrine. A position of academically equality with Greek, Latin and mathematics is demanded for those later studies which have proved to be a necessity to a liberal education. American colleges to an extent that is ridiculous neglect some of the most important studies outside of the classics and mathematics. Dartmouth has no teacher of history, "whether professor, tutor, or temporary instructor." Princeton has only one professor of history, and he includes political science with history in his teaching. Yale requires neither French nor German for admission...
...devote a part of each day to the Bible, so that most people knew by heart a considerable portion of it. The general effect of this is very apparent, and can be very clearly seen in the writings of authors who have made the Bible a study. The neglect nowadays of the formalities of religion, accompanied by a decrease in familiarity with this book, has been a great loss in literary education...