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...course, the voluntary attendance at lectures and the few forensics called for makes it easy to neglect it. Five forensics, at intervals of six or eight weeks, are a small number and is easy to do the work in a slurring manner; still further the subjects for forensics are often such that, unfortunately, the work done is not always original. Yet the course, if undertaken seriously as it should be, has more than the little value students generally attribute to it. Few undergraduates can successfully prepare a brief, arrange its parts systematically and forcibly, and write an argument and refutation...
...work better the course would be more effective. We do not criticise the work of any one year; some instructors have given good forensic subjects while others have given poor; some have enforced the rules rigidly while others have not; but with them all there has appeared a disposition, often frankly admitted, to treat English C indifferently. It has been suggested at times to reduce the number of required +++ to four, - an ill-advised suggestion, for it would only weaken the course more and be a step toward discontinuing it. While the discussion of English in colleges and schools...
...know what a religious life is until we feel a jubilant enthusiasm You will often have this or that person say It is easy enough for him to be lighthearted; it is his temperament. I wish I had such a disposition." The true reason that your friend is light-hearted is that he has a closer walk with God. He knows this is God's world, he sees God in everything he does, wherever he goes. He lives in God, he moves in God, and in God he has his being. It should be the aim of science, history, philosophy...
...college life, of living in dormitories, dining in the same hall and many other advantages which add so much to college life. This side of college life which Vassar and Smith and the other colleges for women offer cannot be found at present at the Annex. Nevertheless, it is often dangerous for social welfare to form too many clubs at the same time. The enthusiasm of the moment which takes up an idea with great gusto can often carry it to an excess and fail to develop into honest interest. A few clubs which can be kept up by earnest...
...called upon for a public speech this training is of great value; and it has much to do with making a good conversationalist. It leads, moreover, to a better pronunciation of the English language. The fault of clipping and slurring and mis-pronouncing words is often laid to Americans and not unjustly. Still further these courses have another advantage in giving a deeper insight into the beauties of prose and verse and the ability to recognize them more clearly. Upon the whole, then, this subject of speaking is not an idle one and its value should be better recognized...