Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In reply to your suggestion in Thursday's issue, I wish to state that we secured Sever 11 because Mr. Gough preferred to speak to a small, select body of students; rather than to a large, mixed audience in Sanders Theatre. If the faculty will allow us the use of Sanders for our future meetings, we shall only be too glad to avail ourselves of the opportunity...
...Dougherty's lecture would be impossible. It was the sort of discourse over which the reporter lays down his pencil, forgets his task, and becomes absorbed in the speaker, along with the rest of the audience. Mr. Dougherty's subject was Oratory, and he used his theme to speak both of what orators are, and what they ought to be. The charm of the lecture, however, lay in the illustrations which the speaker applied to his subject. He told anecdotes in a way which convulsed his audience; he imitated the performances of orators, and would-be orators to perfection...
...unavoidable conflicts. It seems unnecessary, however, that the Union should be placed in its present position, though the fact that the room in which it has always met, has been engaged for so many Thursdays during the remainder of this year. The Union is more cosmopolitan, so to speak, than any other society in college. Thursday evening is the only time in the week that is convenient for its meeting, inasmuch as its members represent so many, and so diverse interests. The Union has acquired, moreover, a kind of prescriptive title to Sever 11 for alternate Thursday evenings. In justice...
...occasion of deep interest and of more than common significance will occur presently at Cambridge, Mass. Henry Irving has been invited to speak at Harvard University, on the general subject of the stage and dramatic art, and he has accepted the invitation. Mr. Irving's address will be delivered in the Sanders Theatre, on Monday, March 30. The actor's art could not have a more authoritative voice to speak its mission and advocate its cause. The audience will be worthy of the speaker, for it will represent one of the foremost institutions of learning and one of the most...
...TUESDAY.Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 P. M. Question: "Resolved, that members of the Presidents cabinet should be allowed on the floor of Congress with full powers to speak and vote...