Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that his speech "will relate to conditions at the front, and the function of aviation as an offensive weapon, and as an aid to the other branches of the service." The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides, and will deal to a considerable extent with airplane photography. The speaker will also discuss the part of the airplane in actual fighting...
...principal speaker of the evening will be Dr. Louis Joseph Kopald, whose subject will be: "Should Reform Judaism be Reformed." Dr. Kopald, who was born in Kracow, Austria, in 1885 now occupies the pulpit of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, and is one of the main forces in the Student Congregation movement. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...meeting of the Massachusetts school administrators at the State House in Boston on Saturday, President Lowell was the principal speaker on the question of changing the requirements for entrance to colleges in the state. He warned the administrators present against the dangers of lowering the standard of work required for entrance to college, but was in hearty accord with the idea of inaugurating any plan that would broaden the chance for more high school men to enter college...
...Sanders Theatre on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock the cadets in the Ensign School of the First Naval District will be awarded commissions in the Naval Reserve Force. President Lowell has been announced as the principal speaker for the occasion. Commissions will be awarded to 122 men who have successfully completed the three-months' course of training. Approximately 40 men who will be commissioned were undergraduates in the University last year...
...taken an active part in politics. For years he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and during the last two years was speaker of that body. In 1905 he was a candidate for mayor of Boston. In 1908 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts and was twice reelected. In 1911 he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts and was barely beaten at the polls by Governor Foss, who was a candidate for re-election. He is now serving his second term as an Overseer of Harvard College, and has been also a lecturer...