Word: speak
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Considering the fact that one University team in an attempt to uphold the liquor traffic in the recent intercollegiate debate was battered until it had, so to speak, not a keg to stand on, while its more soberly-inclined colleague went down utterly before the forces of booze, news of the generous distribution of gold and silver medals among the two unhappy teams is astonishing to say the least, besides giving color to the rumors that Harvard is fast becoming Prussianized. We are told that the Germans were accustomed to stimulate their troops after a "strategic retreat" by a wholesale...
...President William Howard Taft has sent word to the University that he will be unable to speak on the League of Nations in Sanders Theatre on May 27, as was previously announced. The reason for Mr. Taft's change in plans is his speaking tour of the country which will start on May 21, and will not end until the eighth of June. He was also forced to cancel his engagements to address the students of Yale and Cornell...
...results of the efforts of a group of undergraduates and the Student Council, arrangements had been made for Mr. Taft to speak here on the League of Nations on the 27th, with the purpose of "presenting to the men a clear and concise exposition of the facts of the case." The proposed meeting was not to be a debate, but rather a lecture on the problems of the covenant. The men interested in the meeting are unwilling to take Mr. Taft's refusal as final, but hope that he may yet be persuaded to come. If it is absolutely impossible...
...Albert Parker Fitch '00 will speak at a 1922 Jubilee mass meeting to be held in the Gore Hall Common Room this evening at 7.30 o'clock. After Dr. Fitch's speech, V. B. Kellett will lead the class in the music that is to be sung at the Jubilee on June 3. H. F. Colt, president of the Freshman class, is to preside at the meeting...
...Thomas Reed Powell, LL.B, '04, professor of law at Columbia University, will speak at a meeting to be held under the auspices of the Law School Society at Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. His subject will be "The Study of Constitutional Law." All students of the Law and Graduate Schools are invited to the meeting...