Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis '21, both former presidents of the club will also talk. They will discuss one of the most important features of this year's program of the Liberal Club--namely the instituting of the English system of debating as practised at Oxford and Cambridge. This system, sketched by Lord Bryce in his address at the Union recently, consists of informal debates among the members of the Universities, training them for political life. The first debate under the English system will be held October 18, and the subject will be "Disarmament". It probably will be held in the Living Room...
...Viscount Bryce, in appealing for closer relations between collegiate America and England, called attention to the fact that while America is well represented in the English universities, the number of Englishmen studying here is decidedly smaller. The explanation of this condition is simply the greater effort on the part of the English to attract Americans--the Rhodes bequest, for example...
...Viscount Bryce addressed 1500 Harvard students recently. It is regrettable that the talk of so distinguished and scholarly a gentleman should have been confined to the capacity of a university hall. He could have just as well addressed the million people who daily read the Boston Post if publication had been permitted. There was not a single sentence spoken by the great Englishman that would not have been read and appreciated...
...mistage to confine the words of so great a man to a limited number of hearers? There are hundreds of thousands of other students as directly and as personally concerned as the young men who gathered within the range of Lord Bryce's voice. One of the great of the many great commendatory justifications for the publication of newspapers is that they spread the thought and record the history of the present...
Reprinted below is an editorial from the Boston Post deploring a "restricted Lord Bryce". Why did the Viscount address fifteen hundred Harvard students when he might, have spoken to--well a mere modest million of Post readers? We do not know and it is none of our business. If we were to hasard a guess it would be that he preformed to "confine his words to a limited number of hearers" and just why he would not do so we have yet to discover. "Was it not a mistake?", asks the Post, as if the Viscount or the University were...