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...disturbing but kindly teacher, Agnostic Bode attracted such big classes that only the chapel would hold them. There, his long figure draped over the lectern, he would lecture with inflammatory enthusiasm. Sometimes, on fire himself, he would edge off the platform onto the top of an adjoining grand piano, to get more persuasively close to his hearers...
...address to the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in New York on Wednesday, Erich Lindemann, Associate in Psychiatry, stressed the need for greater accord between clergymen and psychiatrists. Temporarily forsaking his Emerson D lectern, Lindemann emphasized the need for psychiatrists to understand people in terms of "their frame of values...
...Scarlet returned to the lectern in the second half, however, and illustrated its command of the sport on three occasions, most memorable of which was Hering's 66-yard touchdown punt return...
...years at Princeton, thousands of students had come to know George McLean Harper-and hundreds never forgot him. They had listened to his dry, earnest voice over a classroom lectern, or heard him read aloud a favorite poet in his sun-patched garden. They knew him as an erect and kindly man who loved all that was good in men & books. Sometimes, over milk and cakes in his garden, he would begin a quiet discussion of Milton or Sainte-Beuve, and would soon become so excited by a point that his chair would scarcely hold him. But his natural dignity...
...Martin Niemöller's speech-making tour of the U.S. officially ended last week. Before 2,600 students and others at Yale's Woolsey Hall, Dachau's most publicized prisoner raised his rich voice and pounded the lectern with his thin hands...