Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant will be speaking during the next few days in Chicago, where he will address the annual banquet of the Progressive Education Society on the occasion of its three day conference...
...address is open to the public without charge and is one of a series of lectures on various aspects of scientific exploration presented under the auspices of the Institute...
When President Roosevelt closed his address to Congress on the State of the Union with a quotation from a "wise philosopher at whose feet I sat," he raised political campaigning to a metaphysical plane (TIME, Jan. 13). The quotation, an exhortation to loyalty to high ideals, came from Harvard's Professor Josiah Royce, who died in 1916. Little reason had Franklin Roosevelt to expect that a quotation from a philosopher long dead would awake echoes either philosophic or political. But even a fabulously absent-minded professor, who lived for 34 years in an oasis of metaphysical calm while...
...about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors Robert Aitken, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles Keck, Augustus Lukeman and the Piccirilli Brothers lent pieces to the exhibition. And at the annual banquet, the chief address was de- livered by Bainbridge Colby. "I want to use this occasion," declared Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State, "to make an earnest plea for the revival of the epitaph. . . . The power of words, suitable and just words, is very great. True words age slowly. Some live forever...
...outspoken address was given by venerable Sculptor Lorado Taft. On the subject of war memorials, he said...