Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...express themselves with ease and fluency when suddenly invited to make a few remarks, and "feel obliged to make many excuses upon their surprise at being called upon and lack of preparation." The criticism is just; and the fault is less excusable when we consider that the ability to speak extemporaneously is not hard to acquire. Practice is the magic that enables most men to arrange and express their thoughts when the necessity for so doing unexpectedly arises. For furnishing this practice, the editorial in question recommends "a class in extempore speaking, already introduced in one or two colleges...
...execrable taste; newspaper exaggeration does not satisfy them; they not only send in vague rumors upon hearsay authority, and "write up" matters of which they know nothing; but in order to make something spicy for sensational journals they resort to downright lying. It may sound harsh to speak of them thus; but so many falsehoods have appeared in print that all cannot be due to accident. We wish that some measures could be taken either by the college or the papers in town, effectually to stop this nuisance of sensational reporting...
...Phillips Brooks will speak in Lawrence this evening before the St. Paul's Society and the Society of Christian Brethren. Whenever Dr. Brooks consents to speak at Harvard he is sure to have a hearty welcome from students of the college, for his interest in Harvard and his earnestness and sincerity in all that he says, combined with his wide reputation both as speaker and thinker, make his words peculiarly valuable. In connection with the meeting to-night we would express our gratification at the circumstance that the two religious societies of the college have united in inviting a speaker...
CHAPEL SERVICE.Sunday evening services in Appleton Chapel will be resumed on April 18, when Rev. Francis G. Peabody will officiate. Rev. Philip S. Moxom of the First Baptist Church, Boston, will speak on Sunday evening, April...
...quite superfluous for us to speak again of the loose way in which many items of so called "news" are worked up for the city papers, but with complaints coming to us from three or four different quarters we find ourselves obliged to speak of the matter once more. Setting aside all reference to the frequent misrepresentations of students and instructors of the college, we would touch only upon athletics. The members of the athletic teams are constantly complaining that they and their sports are grossly misrepresented in the city press. That their complaints are, with few exceptions, well founded...