Hillis, Newell Dwight..... The Woe of Belgium... Page 210 161 Martin, William Wesley...Apple Blossoms... 159 144 On the Death of David Crockett 174 The Still Undiscovered America 289 Peace... 201 A Pan-American Policy. 203 What is a Good Man... 274 The Power of Music.. 158 The Man and the Soil. Thurston, John Mellen.... Shall the Monroe Doctrine be 243 86 148 85 ΙΟΙ The Destiny of Democracy. White, Emma Gertrude... Night-Fall. Whittier, John Greenleaf. . In School Days.. 197 229 257 193 123 192 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler..... Solitude.... Williams, Wilson.. INTRODUCTION HOW TO BECOME A SPEAKER THE keynote of success in public speaking is everlastingly keeping at it. People may be born rich, good looking, healthy, but they are not born orators, although the Latin poet said they were. Just as you learn to walk by walking, to swim by swimming, so you learn to speak in public by speaking in public. The time when it is necessary to argue the importance of teaching public speaking in schools and colleges is past. The platitude that if you have something to say you will say it well, is losing its significance if it ever had any. Too many people have tried that plan and failed to make tenable any further belief in such a doctrine. Learning to speak in public is very much like learning to swim. You may become a past master of the science of swimming as given in books, but before you can swim you must get into the water. Similarly you may become thoroughly familiar with the science of public speaking, but before you can make a creditable speech you must speak in public. On the other hand, how many people have you heard of who learned to swim by being thrown into the water? A few, we will admit, but generally these few acquire hap-hazard strokes that are un I |