16. Make a brief analytical statement of Henry W. Grady's "The Race Problem,"

page 36.

 

17. By what analytical principle did you proceed? (See page 225.)

 

18. Write a short, carefully generalized speech from a large amount of data on

one of the following subjects: (_a_) The servant girl problem; (_b_) cats; (_c_)

the baseball craze; (_d_) reform administrations; (_e_) sewing societies; (_f_)

coeducation; (_g_) the traveling salesman.

 

19. Observe this passage from Newton's "Effective Speaking:"

 

"That man is a cynic. He sees goodness nowhere. He sneers at virtue, sneers at

love; to him the maiden plighting her troth is an artful schemer, and he sees

even in the mother's kiss nothing but an empty conventionality."

 

Write, commit and deliver two similar passages based on your choice from this

list: (_a_) "the egotist;" (_b_) "the sensualist;" (_c_) "the hypocrite;" (_d_)

"the timid man;" (_e_) "the joker;" (_f_) "the flirt;" (_g_) "the ungrateful

woman;" (_h_) "the mournful man." In both cases use the principle of "Reference

to Experience."

 

20. Write a passage on any of the foregoing characters in imitation of the style

of Shakespeare's characterization of Sir John Falstaff, page 227.