Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complaint was made against the work of English VIII. It was said that in the work of the course many of the greatest writers within the selected period were completely ignored. This must still be the complaint against any such course as either of the two of which we speak, unless the course be made a full course and the lecture system adopted in place of the too elementary method of study which is at present pursued in English VII. In this way the student would have ample time to bestow upon the work of the course, and could feel...
...lecturer spoke of the aids to naturalism which improvements in stage mechanism had been, and told of the amusing efforts of actors to be in the "focus" of the old-style footlights. He then proceeded to speak of elocution as an aid to the actor. "The study of elocution is necessary for the acting art. The advice of the old actors was that the voice should be pitched so as to allow the top galleries to hear. This idea has passed away. An actor must be natural, but to be natural he must be broader than nature. One always listens...
...Mary A. Livermore will speak under the auspices of the Total Abstinence League some evening in the second or third week of April...
There are many topics connected with the debates of the Union on which the President has shown himself fully prepared when asked to speak on them in other places. The Union recently debated the change of requirements for admission, and the votes taken at that time show that the students at large need to be enlightened on that subject before they unanimously support the stand taken by our faculty...
...Bowen will speak in Tremont Temple, April 20th. He should have a large audience of Harvard men, for they will find his lecture most enjoyable...