ABSTRACT
In his address at the University of Glasgow on November 9, 1898, Principal Caird spoke in support of a vanishing discipline, which was yet being pursued under the eyes of the university authorities:
The Art of Public Speaking [is]… the special subject of my lecture. The interest that has been excited during the last few months on behalf of the Students’ Union, which is to be in future the home of the Dialectic and kindred societies, has drawn my attention to the fact that such societies afford the only direct discipline [my italics] in an art which plays a large part in more than one of what are called the “learned professions.” (pp. 332–334)
