Word: platform
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Speakers' Club has never been intended as a rival of the Dramatic Club, as you seem to suggest, but was formed by men interested in various forms of platform speaking and oral expression. Some of the members are interested in debating, others along the lines of the Boylston Competition, others in dramatic interpretation with reference to good elocution and vocalization, while there are still others who simply want practice in expressing their thoughts before an audience with clearness and conciseness. The arrangements committee in outlining the work of the club has been forced to keep these various interests in mind...
...large part of the athletic controversy in the past few years it is of interest to see how the schedules of today compare in the number of games played with last year and five or ten years ago. We are supposed to be proceeding at present on a platform of reduction. The Faculty has expressed its opinion that a considerable curtailment would be wise and there have been varying estimates as to what the limits of the reduction should be. It seems only practical from the athletic standpoint to bring about such a change fairly gradually, rather than attempt...
There will be handicap competitions in the broad jump, high jump, pole-vault, 16-pound shot-put, and 16-pound hammer-throw this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The four first mentioned events will take place in the baseball cage and the hammer-throw will be from a wooden platform on Soldiers Field. A medal will be awarded to the winner of first place in each event. Additional entries will be taken at the cage this afternoon until the beginning of the competition. Coach Quinn, Captain Rand, H. E. Harwood '10, L. Little '10 and A. Wheeler '11 will...
...done on the summit of the mound. Here a great Roman stair 80 feet in width was discovered in June. At the top of the stairway is a large paved area flanked by massive walls, on which were found the inverted bases of four columns. Beyond the paved platform, there are probably the remains of a temple. To the west of the stairway a chamber 20 by 40 feet in size was found partly cut in the rock. A large pit in the floor was not explored because of lack of time. At the foot of the stairway the trunk...
...song was by no means the only feature of last night's mass meeting. It was one of the biggest gatherings in the Union on record and there were scores of men who could not even get close enough to the doorways to see the platform. Everyone seemed charged not only with the ordinary enthusiasm of the last week of the season, but in addition with several pounds left over from Saturday's victory. It must have been gratifying to Captain Burr and his team to feel that such unstinted loyalty was being bestowed upon them. Another chance...