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Like nothing more than cherries).

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUPID'S MINISTERS. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

These charges are not new; they have been heard in other though humbler quarters before, and, what is worse, Harvard cannot do otherwise than plead an unqualified "guilty" in the face of them. If it be urged that a short course in rhetoric and a few themes are sufficient for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. ADAMS'S COMPLAINT. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

In our efforts to avoid the spread-eagle know-little-and-talk-a-great-deal style of oratory in favor with our average American stump-speaker, we have touched the other extreme, and have laid ourselves open to a kind of censure which such articles as that on "The Repressive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. ADAMS'S COMPLAINT. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

Oratory is the other field of usefulness, in training for which our places of education are wanting. The mere faculty of expressing one's thoughts with facility and grace is not uncommon among us; but behind and above all this there are certain conditions, indispensable to the making of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHI BETA KAPPA ORATION, | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

ALL Springfield and all strangers that the walls of that dull city contained awoke on the morning of July 19 and anxiously calculated the probabilities. The dull, threatening sky promised nothing better than discomfort to the male, and no possible display of finery to the female spectators of the Third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REGATTA. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »