Word: speake
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University of Michigan has established a system of meetings compulsory for Freshmen at which various members of the faculty speak informally for a half-hour on subjects of interest to students newly come to the university. These talks are on college ideals and traditions; and these meetings tend to acquaint the students with well-known faculty members and with college modes of life. . . It is evident that the Freshmen . . . cannot hope to become familiar with the ways of college without some exterior assistance. They remain an amorphous but unamalgamated group in their present situation, and some definite means should...
Morning Service, 11.00. Junior Parish Service, 5.00, followed by social half hour. Rev. Palfrey Perkins will speak on "The Ship that Found Herself...
...anyone else has the "right" to hear "facts" about Russia. Nor will anyone deny that those people eager for the knowledge can ask any person they please to tell them about Russia. But an entirely different light is thrown on the matter when a man is invited to speak in a University building who is wholly and entirely unfitted to address a body of students. Here again, no one will deny the "right" to extend the invitation. It is not that Mr. Humphries looks favorably on certain phases of Soviet government. Many of us may see its good points...
...reaction on the outside public is a matter which should be well considered. The stretch between Wilfred Humphries being allowed to speak at Harvard and encouraged to speak at Harvard is not a long one. We do not wish it thought that the University believes in such tactics as his, for it is not true. We would not object to a sober and intellectual discussion of Russian affairs, both from admirers and critics, but we do object to unbalanced speeches from avowed propagandists...
Professors Haskins and Lord, speaking on "Problems of the Peace Conference," will be the first to give one of these courses, and will speak on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 o'clock at Huntington Hall, beginning January 6. The topics will be as follows...