Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Each speaker will be allowed 12 minutes for his main speech and 5 minutes for rebuttal, with warnings at the end of 10 minutes for speeches and 4 minutes for rebuttal. Governor David I. Walsh will preside, and the judges who will render the decision are: Marion LeRoy Burton, President of Smith College; G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark University; Homer Albers, Dean of Boston University Law School...
...that is carefully authenticated, pre-digested, and served up in most tempting style for the inert undergraduate. The men of both teams have been spending busy weeks preparing their arguments. They have sifted their facts thoroughly, eliminated the chaff, and dressed them up in the best possible garb. No speaker will make a point of showing the seamy side of his case; but hostile critics will come before and after; and the truths which escape unscathed will have a strong claim to validity. The difference between hearing a carefully prepared debate on a question and hearing a propagandist lecture...
...speaker of the evening, Mr. Alcide T. M. de Andria, who has made the history of music his special study for many years, will explain the development of French music from the songs of the Middle Ages to the Marseillaine, and will sing a group of old songs of Old France. Mr. de Andria is a native of Smyrna, of French and Italian parents. He has studied at Namur and the Conservatory of Brussels. He will be assisted at the piano by Mr. George B. Weston of the French department...
Finally, the speaker called on the audience, as college men, to lead the way to a new courtesy which should rival that of the past...
...attention has been called to an item in your issue of March 4, under the caption, "Speaker Urged Stronger Armament." This proves to be a report of my discussion of the Armament question at the Harvard Union on March 3. What I did in fact urge was that there is not the least reason for increasing armaments. The present war is, in my opinion, the outcome of the long series of conflicts of interest attending the era of colonial expansion, now practically closed. We never had a serious conflict of interest in this field, and consequently were not menaced...