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Today is the final date on which Seniors and Juniors may enter their names for the Boylston Prizes in Elocution, the trials for which will take place Thursday, May 9. Competitors will speak selections from English, Greek or Latin authors, and all selections must be approved by Dean Briggs, who is Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
...University Debating Council has decided to hold trials for the 1921 team on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of next week, on the subject: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of compulsory military service modeled after that of Switzerland." Each candidate will speak for five minutes on either side of the question. All the trials will take place in Harvard 6 at 7.45 o'clock, men having Military Science lectures being permitted to come late. The team will be finally picked on Friday, April 12, from men who are retained after these preliminaries...
Miss Fraser, the principal speaker of the evening, is a prominent English woman who has been closely connected with the work which the women of England have been engaged in since the beginning of the war. As an accredited representative of the British Government, she will speak of the part that women are playing in England in filling the gaps in the industrial organization caused by the enlistment of men in the army and navy. She has a national reputation as a speaker on English labor conditions...
...clock, before the Easter service, Dr. Ross will speak before the Christian Association...
...know that in the past the Harvard Regiment and the R. O. T. C. have done admirable work, but I am not competent to speak on what is being done at the present time. As to what boys should do about enlisting I can only say what my own four boys did is what I believe to be the best policy. I am exceedingly proud of the course which they followed and the cause for which they are fighting. "If I had my way, every young man from 19 to 21 years of age would be put into a training...