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...have any adaptability for speaking make a huge mistake if they do not ally themselves with one of these clubs. The two best accomplishments a student can take away with him from Harvard are the abilities to think clearly, and to express his thoughts forcibly. Debating is a great aid to both. When a man can think clearly on his feet, he generally has no trouble in doing so at his desk. When he can speak to the point before other people, he finds it easy to formulate his ideas by himself...
Because a paper is occasionally called upon to deal harshly with college organizations college men are apt to think that adverse criticism is its typical mood; yet where a paper has "justice" for its by word it must sometimes deal thus harshly or it fails in its mission. In this spirit of justice we feel ourselves right in criticising adversely the work of the freshman eleven. It is an old story-and only the worse for its age. To begin with, the freshmen have little or no discipline in their work and right here is the basis of the other...
...followed by Professor Taussig. The needs of democratic government, he thought, were constantly growing greater. Two things the discipline of college ought to give a student,-the ability to think soberly and capably on public problems, and a higher appreciation of honesty in both public and private life...
...those institutions where it owes its origin. The custom here is so new that we need not feel bound to continue in the lines followed by other classes. A simple word of direction from the Class Day Committee will set things right; and this word is, we think, well justified in view of the precedent which suggests...
...turning from personal experiences, he compared the spirit of different ages, the ancient, the mediaeval, and the modern. The one thing that makes each succeeding age better is simply that men have grown more and more to think of others rather than themselves. In the middle ages a banquet-hall might be built over a dungeon by the best men of the time, but now the world has out-grown that...