Word: impromptu
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...Pedagogical Society, and before the Contemporary Club; on Saturday at the dinner of the Associated Harvard Clubs in St. Louis; and on Tuesday, before the students of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In addition to these speeches for which he had planned, President Eliot has delivered several impromptu addresses by special request...
Arrived at Misery, the capable Refreshment Committee at once set about serving the lunch, so that the demands of all comers were quickly catered to. A little impromptu baseball practice was indulged in about the lunch counter, but it was found necessary to seat the crowd as the ice-cream could not be handed around in this delightful manner...
...slight collation at the bar ended the entertainment, and to the tune of "Johnnie Comes Marching Home" and led by Captain Knowles of the nine, the men marched to the wharf and were taken aboard the "King Philip." Here a third meal awaited them, which was followed by some impromptu singing and a few speeches on the part of the Information Committee; but before the rest of the carefully prepared programme could be run off the steamer struck the wharf with a dull thud and the field day was over...
...dinner given the members of the Association at Sherry's on Tuesday night by the Alumni Council of Columbia. President Eliot made a short impromptu speech on the "strenuous life." On Wednesday, December 31, President Parkin of Lower Canada College, a representative of the trustees of the Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund, explained to the association the purposes and scope of the fund...
...necessarily limited, and only those for whom the training is to serve a special purpose are expected to apply for admission. Each student speaks formally once in two weeks some model address or an original composition of his own, and frequent opportunity is given after the regular speeches for impromptu discussion...