Word: forum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them at any table. You can hear them through the length of the hall. They fraternally greet all whom they see, and hold long-winded conversations over all subjects from politics to the moon. Sometimes a group will gather and an amateur forum is organized, like nothing so much in the broad world as a Ladies Aid Society holding a sewing bee. To the weary and unwilling listener to these parleys it seems strange that so much wisdom could be contained in so small a space. Surely Diogenes and his tub had nothing on a few loquacious spirits and their...
...greatly impressed the other day at the forum debate between the Harvard Democrats and Republicans by the Fact that the second speaker fo the Republican Club brought out in one of his arguments the mistake which the present administration committed upon its accession in not offering any encouragement, not to say protection of co-operation, to the group of American bankers who had just succeeded with no, little difficulty in securing for American an equal share in the loan syndicate of the great powers in China. Ex-president Taft has put it will when he said in the Yale Review...
...Freshman Debating Society will hold a meeting in Smith Halls Common Room tonight at 7.30 o'clock. An open forum will be held to discuss the Presidential election, and permanent officers will also be elected...
...first open forum of this year was held in the Living Room of the Union yesterday evening at 8.15 o'clock. The question under debate was: "Resolved, That Woodrow Wilson Should be Re-Elected President of the United States." The debating on both sides was very keen and spirited, and the whole subject was well threshed out. Each political club was represented by three speakers, and the argument centred around them. Judge A. P. Stone '93, in introducing the first speaker, characterized the two candidates by stating that which ever one is elected, he will be a man who will...
...First Forum in Union...