Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea is, of course, an excellent one and has often been pleaded for, and sometimes with skill and enthusiasm, and by men eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive...
These figures speak for themselves, and strongly testify to the late librarian's energy and enterprise. That he was a persistent and able worker is unquestionable; and no one can deny that in a large degree Harvard is indebted to him for what her library...
...understand that the Executive Committee intend to present only the names of those men who have spoken at least twice from the floor, and have shown a desire to acquire the art of extemporaneous speaking. It therefore behooves all who desire an election to avail themselves of the opportunity to speak at the next meeting of the society to be held one week from Friday. While any one is entitled and urged to speak from the floor, only members are appointed principal disputants...
...SHIPPEN, Sec'y.SHAKSPERE CLUB. - The Club will meet as usual at 7.30 this evening. Scenes 1 and 2, Act II, will be read. Several members of the club have volunteered to speak at this meeting...
...schools. Going further up the scale, can any one observe the enervated and demoralized state of the average foreigner, after a short struggle with our tongue, without feeling what a terrible thing this language is? No remarks need be made about "ye student and his theme," for they always speak loudly for themselves, yea even profanely sometimes...