Word: speak
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Civil Service Reform Club will hold the second of its series of smoke talks tonight at 7.30 at the Colonial Club. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart will speak on "The Spoilsman's Point of View." Members of the club may bring friends...
...Memorial Society starts out well in obtaining four speakers so well fitted to speak about Harvard in the four decades chosen, as Colonel Higginson, President Eliot, Mr. Ropes, and Mr. Storey. The period is one of natural interest and there are few of us who are so familiar with it as we ought...
...that florid and pompous oratory is becoming more and more discredited shows that precision in thought, clearness and force in argument are becoming recognized as the chief objects in debate. The large possibilities for improvement in this direction must be admitted and no one, certainly, is better qualified to speak about them than Professor Baker...
...real than the peril of European entanglements; is there a danger that "sovereignty" may lead to protectorates, and those to annexations, until our republic becomes unmanageable? These are some of the questions which suddenly confront us. Can there be anything more creditable to Harvard men than to think and speak on these matters without fear or favor? Is it not plain that nothing can more impede a rational conclusion, or more lower our dignity in our own eyes, than to approach such questions in a feverish heat, or to let professions of patriotism or savage praise of war frighten...
...they can, "betrayers" of our native land. We are evidently guilty of lese-majeste in Mr. Roosevelt's eyes; and though a mad president may any day commit the country without warning to an utterly new career and history, no citizen, no matter how he feels, must then speak, not even to the representative constitutionally appointed to check the President in time of need...