Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...discussion will be informal and will take place from the floor, everyone being given an equal opportunity to express his opinion. Speeches will be limited to five minutes unless the house signifies its desire to allow the speaker to continue for five more minutes. Whenever a member of one party wishes to express his appreciation of an especially convincing argument by an opponent he is requested to change sides. After the discussion opportunity will be given to shift to the side of the house with which one agrees. A count will then be taken of the number on either side...
...meeting will be open to members of the Union and members of the Speaker's club...
Business collapses and sporadic production brought about by varied industrial seasons are among the principal causes of our continuous amount of employment, as stated by Mr. Walter Hinkle, of the New England Committee of Intercollegiate Socialists, before the Socialist Club last night. To remedy this condition, the speaker looked not to charity relief, with its principle of "something for nothing," but rather to such reforms as a national system of labor exchanges, restriction of immigration, and possibly also unemployment insurance...
...second smoker of the year for the Junior class will be held in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday evening at 8.30 o'clock. President Lowell will be the speaker of the evening and will discuss thoroughly the various aspects of the Senior dormitory question. Members of the 1916 Dormitory Committee will also be on hand to answer questions...
President Eliot has been chosen speaker for the Memorial Day exercises to be held in Sanders Theatre on May 30. Last year the address was delivered by Charles Fessenden Morse '58, lieutenant-colonel in the Civil War, and this year's address, in view of President Eliot's position as an authority on international peace, should be interesting in comparison. The members of the Charles Beck Post, G. A. R., will be invited as usual and will be guests of honor at a luncheon given by the Memorial Society. The usual march and exercises will take place...