Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...George Macaulay Trevelyan, speaking in the Union last night, gave a brilliant description of present social and political conditions in the Balkan peninsula. Coming almost directly from Servia, where he has travelled and studied conditions during the past few months, Mr. Trevelyan told of the terrible epidemic of typhus fever which is now raging there, and of the courageous work which is being done to combat it by British and American doctors and nurses...
...George Macaulay Trevelyan, English author, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Trevelyan is the third son the Sir George Otto Trevelyan, celebrated English author and statesman, and is well-known as a brilliant historical writer, notably in connection with two books on Garibaldi, published...
...Louis Dembitz Brandeis LL.B. '77 will speak on "Practicing Law" before the Law School Society at Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Frankfurter will introduce the speaker, who is one of Boston's leading lawyers. Mr. Brandeis is prominent through his brilliant work as counsel in several cases of national importance, and is the author of several articles on the trusts, labor unions, and various pieces of legislation. He has recently been arguing for the minimum wage law before the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Cutler's ingenious letter on "The Failure of Distribution" is not concerned, as some might suppose from the title, with "unearned increments," but with the recent modification of the elective system. He is disturbed by the thought that some brilliant young men may be handicapped in their careers as specialists by the necessity of distributing some of their courses in other departments than their favored ones. Probably he will not succeed in convincing many readers that his fear is reasonable. His appeal to the example of our grandfathers seems singularly inapposite: to be sure, our grandfathers did not know...
...object of the conference, in brief, is to present the Gospel ministry as the supreme service for the man of today. A number of exceptionally brilliant speakers will address the conference and a very interesting program, beginning Friday evening and lasting until Sunday afternoon, has been prepared. Some of the speakers are: The Rov, Albert P. Eitch D.D., of Andover Theological Seminary; Robert E. Spear, D.D., Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; and John R. Mott, LL.D., general secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation...