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...wishes to make a speech, the first essential is to have his audience follow him. He must then have something to say. Something which must be said. To say this you will want to make some preparation. I should say that this should be of the simplest form. Think over what you want to say; then select three or four points. Let these form a logical order in your mind if possible. If the logical order be impossible, take some other natural order. Then think out for each of these points some good illustration or story. Even a little humor...
...this team, and Harvard has been a member of the three-cornered league with Haverford and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, cricket is a sport which ought to be fostered in the University, since it provides light, healthy exercise and does not require exceptional athletic ability. One would think that a game which has been played for so long at Cambridge and which has these advantages would not have to go to Allston and use the grounds of another club. Yet such was the case last year, and this year as it is no longer possible...
...think that the time has come when the whole college should unite in an endeavor to put a stop to such disturbances and to relieve the college of the scandal which they cause. We therefore promise to refrain from the use of explosives and firearms either in celebration of athletic victories or at any other time, and to do our utmost to discourage and prevent the use of such explosives during the remainder of our college course...
...think that the time has come when the whole College should unite in an endeavor to put a stop to such disturbances and to relieve the College of the scandal which they cause. We, therefore, promise to refrain from the use of firearms and explosives of any sort, either in celebrations of athletic victories or at any other time, and to do our utmost to discourage and prevent the use of such explosives during the remainder of our College course...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, at whose suggestion the old Harvard Union was organized, has consented to address the present Union early in the next half-year on some subject connected with speaking. As Colonel Higginson has not yet fully regained his health, he does not think it safe to speak in the evening nor in a large hall. He will therefore speak in the afternoon, very likely on a Wednesday afternoon so as to give the members of English 6 and English 30 a chance to be present, and probably in Sever 11. Admission to Col. Higginson's talk must...