Word: address
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under the auspices of the Harvard Memorial Society, undergraduate organization dedicated to the preservation of traditions and history of the University, Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, emeritus, will address the Class of 1941 in the Union on "Recollections of Old Harvard" Friday night...
...persons have become so famous that the speaker dare not change them without risking the charge of affectation. In this connection, a famous speaker whose "raddio" was a standing subject for witticism, forgot himself (unless my ears and memory have deceived me) and in the heat of a campaign address employed the correct pronunciation. But only momentarily. On the other hand, too close attention to details of pronunciation might have a tendency to detract from the speaker's effectiveness...
...Publisher Joseph Hamblen Sears (president, 1904-18, of D. Appleton & Co.. later head of his own firm) desiring a chef, saw an advertisement, called at the address given, met a short, stocky, quiet, efficient-looking servant, whom he hired on the spot. For 14 years in Mr. Sears' Oyster Bay, L. I. home, Alfred Grouard was a faultless chef who in spare time read religious works, prayed, but never left the estate, never received a letter, visitor, telegram, telephone call. Year ago Alfred Grouard's health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused...
Club members parodied the commencement exercises in 1987, during the course of which a radio announcer offered full scholarships "for three labels or reasonable facsimiles there of." The climax found the wrong speaker preparing to deliver the commencement address...
Before a colloquium on astronomy at the Observatory, Theodore E. Sterne, lecturer on Astrophysics and tutor in the Division of Physical Sciences, will give an address on "The Pulsation Theory and the Secondary Variation of Delta Scuti" in Building D at 4:30 o'clock today...