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Under the circumstances the task set is a hard one. To lead, as gently as is consistent with firmness, the mistaken elders along a path which is difficult to their unaccustomed feet, to repeat again and again with kind insistence the doctrines which are so easy to the more enlightened mind, never forgetting that consideration which is due to a blood relation,-this is a duty calling into play all the self-assurance and confident superiority which even a careful training of four years can bestow...
...standing on it. Also if some machine could be made so as to prevent one team from pulling the ribbon on their side before the start, it would ensure a fair drop for both sides. The invention of such a machine ought not to be a difficult task, and it would facilitate matters greatly at the winter meetings...
...describe Mr. Dougherty's lecture would be impossible. It was the sort of discourse over which the reporter lays down his pencil, forgets his task, and becomes absorbed in the speaker, along with the rest of the audience. Mr. Dougherty's subject was Oratory, and he used his theme to speak both of what orators are, and what they ought to be. The charm of the lecture, however, lay in the illustrations which the speaker applied to his subject. He told anecdotes in a way which convulsed his audience; he imitated the performances of orators, and would-be orators...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- Having been taken to task in your columns, for a letter which I wrote day before yesterday, concerning the expenses of the University crew, I feel called upon to add a few words of explanation...
...obtained by applying to them. This in some respects, is better than a public sale in New York, for the influence of these ladies, ought to insure a ready disposal of all the remaining tickets for both nights. The only trouble is that this method imposes a considerable task upon the ladies who consent to act as patronesses. In order that tickets bought in New York may not be inferior to those bought here, none of the seats will be reserved...