Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bills coming up in Arkansas and other state legislatureshow far the Fundamentalist determination to reform the country extends. News from Atlanta, Ga., contained a hint of notable latitude. There the loudest speaker of all Fundamentaldom, Dr. John Roach Straton of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, had been imported to address the mother chapter of "The Supreme Kingdom," a high-powered crusading fraternity founded last winter (TIME, Feb. 1) with the paid assistance of Organizer Edward Young Clarke, who built up the Ku Klux Klan for a fat commission on each member pledged. The first feature of the meeting was Organizer...
Gilbert Murray, the first professor to hold the Charles Eliot Norton chair of poetry, will address an American audience for the last time before leaving for England, when he speaks tonight at the Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock. the address is being given in the Symphony Hall to accommodate those who have been unable to hear his lectures in halls of more limited capacity...
...answer to this question is to be found in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and a hundred other memorial speeches. It stands out so clearly that it is overlooked while exploring in obscure corners. At intervals men need rededication to the better; finer, more courageous elements in life and long experience has shown that formal, public expression of tribute to men who have stood outstandingly for these things is a psychologically sound means to that end. Those of us who have, in the preparation of this memorial issue, studied Eliot's life and work, and thus indirectly gained contact with them...
...Years ago, President Eliot made an address, which was subsequently printed and widely circulated, called "More Money for the Public Schools." He served as President of the National Educational Association and has given much time and attention throughout his career to the professional preparation of teachers. He was Chairman of the Committee of Ten on Secondary Education, whose report, in the early nineties, had a great influence on the high schools of the country. These are but items out of a long list which could be made of the services which President Eliot has rendered to the public schools...
...evil wrought by flying will be incomparably greater than any benefit derived from it by mankind," declared Sir Hugh Frenchard, chief of the British Air staff recently. Professor Philip Baker of London University, a noted pacifist, used this statement as the basis for an address to a peace conference at York, England, several days ago. Professor Baker affirmed that Sir Hugh Frenchard had said to him that both military and civil aviation should be abandoned. This view of aerial development coming from a distinguished soldier and an experienced flyer has occasioned much comment...