6. Put the sentiments of Mr. Bryan's "Prince of Peace," on page 448, into your

own words. Honestly criticise your own effort.

 

7. Take any of the following quotations and make a five-minute speech on it

without pausing to prepare. The first efforts may be very lame, but if you want

speed on a typewriter, a record for a hundred-yard dash, or facility in

speaking, you must practise, _practise_, _PRACTISE_.

 

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

 

--TENNYSON, _In Memoriam_.

 

Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more

than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

 

--TENNYSON, _Lady Clara Vere de Vere_.

 

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain in its azure

hue.

 

--CAMPBELL, _Pleasures of Hope_.

 

His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of

wealth.