Word: speak
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be an open meeting of the Graduate Schools Society in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. Dr. J. H. Hyslop, formerly professor of logic and ethics at Columbia University will speak on "The Evidence for Immortality from Psychical Research." The meeting is open to all graduate students and their wives...
...Roger I. Lee '02 will speak to all Freshmen who intend to join the class in general athletics at a meeting to be held in Smith Halls Common Room this evening at 7.30 o'clock. E. H. Clark '96, assistant graduate treasurer, will discuss the work of the class and outline the plans for the winter. At the same time the men will be divided into squads of ten, according to their physical qualifications. In this way the possibility of men taking part in exercise for which they are unfitted will be eliminated. All Freshmen are eligible to join...
There will be a meeting of all Freshmen who are interested in track in Smith Halls Common Room this evening at 7 o'clock. Dr. Morrill will discuss the plans for the Freshman season and several others will speak. The showing of the class has been deplorable so far this season. Scarcely ten men have reported and only a few of these have had much experience. The Freshman team will be entered as usual in the B. A. A. meet and other races will be arranged during the winter...
Captain Thomas deW. Milling, of the United States Signal Corps, who is in charge of the aviation training schools established by the government under the new Reserve Officers' Training Corps Act, will come to Cambridge during the latter part of the month to speak to all members of the University who are interested in flying. According to the new law applications may be made for enrolment at one of the present training schools, and the applicant, if accepted, will undergo six months training at the expense of the government at the end of which time he will be commissioned...
...speech abounds in words which have survived only in a phrase, and which, if taken out of the phrase, sound unfamiliar. We all speak of illness as "sapping one's strength." That phrase comes from medieval warfare. The return of the present war to medieval siege tactics has brought "sapping" back to its original sense...