Word: speakers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Speaker avers that the President's selective draft bill cannot pass. Let us hope he is as good a prophet as he was when he declared last spring that the McLemore "scuttle" resolution was bound to win. Boston Post...
...difficult to understand what Speaker Clark means when he talks of the "disgrace" of a selective draft for the army. He doesn't explain, and in all probability would not be able...
...there is disgrace in paying a citizen's duty to the army by law, there is disgrace in paying taxes by law, or in doing any other good service by compulsion. Does the Speaker think the gallant sons of France who are fighting in the cause of humanity are "disgraced" by their conscription laws? Or the brave, if misled, Germans? Or the later British soldiers now giving such a magnificent account of themselves...
...book, 'The First Hundred Thousand," Ian Hay is best known in this country, although he is rapidly acquiring a reputation as a forceful speaker and lecturer. In this widely read work he graphically pictured the conditions in England at the outbreak of the war, and told of the length of time required to train a body of volunteers to the efficiency necessary in modern warfare. He has been granted a furlough by the British War Office to lecture in this country on England's part...
...other speaker will be Mr. S. E. Wright, director of boys' work at Hale House. He will speak on "Methods of Training Volunteers." For many years the Phillips Brooks House Association has been sending members of the University into various kinds of social service work in Boston. This meeting provides an unusual opportunity for men interested in such work to become acquainted with some phases of the actual practice...