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...debate was "Resolved: - That the power of railroad corporations should be further limited by 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...
...contestants spoke, the judges awarded each of them a certain per cent, first on the form of the address and then on its substance. The results, as announced by the Hon. Wm. E. Barrett after a consultation of some fifteen minutes, were as follows...
Last night the usual large audience heard Mr. E. Charlton Black's lecture on "Spenser and Drummond of Haw hornden." Mr. Black first spoke of the events which preceded and prepared the way for Spenser's writings...
...George A. Gordon of Boston spoke at the meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association last evening on the "Unselfish Life." In substance his remarks were as follows: "Cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shall find it after many days.' That is a counsel for life. unselfish life. It seems to the majority of men that the pleasures of life must be through sense, through passion. The great battle of life is the struggle between what seems and what is. Let us study the advice given in the text. Only the highest soul can give us real...
...Lyman Abbott gave a very interesting informal talk to a large number of students at the Christian Association rooms last evening. He spoke briefly of some of the problems of city life as he had seen them. The tendency he said, of people to herd together is as marked abroad as in our own country. The common opinion that this is a great evil is a mistaken one. The evils in the large cities, as they are more concentrated, are of course more apparent, but he average is not much if any worse in the cities than in the towns...