Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tends to improve my English and increase my vocabulary, but I have no desire to increase it with such words as amanuensis. Sensible men would prefer stenographer or secretary I would not be surprised should an early issue of your publication contain a revision of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, using such unusual words as amanuensis instead of the two-syllable words Lincoln used...
General Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget, next addressed the meeting. He told five humorous stories: one about a Scotsman and an Irishman, one about a Negro and a Negress (Rufus and Narcissa), one about a Negro preacher with a fondness for long words, one about a fish too big to be true, one about a man who said that a church service "beat the devil." He also inaugurated the Loyal Order of Woodpeckers, whose members will dedicate themselves to performing small but frequent economies, and "whose persistent tapping away at waste will make cheerful music...
...program for the exercises tomorrow afternoon centers about the Baccalaureate sermon preceded by an organ prelude and march by L. A. Copeland '27, the invocation by Professor Moore, and the singing of the "Netherlands Folk Song" by the Chapel Choir. Before President Lowel delivers his address...
Speeches numerous and lengthy fell into two classes, depending on whether the speaker did or did not represent the Federal Government. Of the latter sort was Mayor Thompson's address which termed the flood "an indictment of and challenge to the Federal Government," something which "might have been expected in China but not in the rich America with its boasted good government...
...erected in memory of George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16, was formally dedicated yesterday afternoon. The ceremony, which was held in the McKinlock quadrangle before a small number of McKinlock's college friends and a large part of the students now living in McKinlock Hall, consisted of an introductory address by President Lowell and speeches by General C. P. Summerall, commander of the division in which McKinlock served, Dr. W. G. Thayer, Headmaster of St. Marks's School, and Dean C. N. Greenough...