Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Freeman of Wellesley and others. At 11 o'clock the subject of discussion will be "With the present requirements for admission to college, is it possible to give a sufficiently thorough training in English in the preparatory school?" Mr. Frank A. Hill, head master of Cambridge high school, will speak first. He will be followed by President William DeW Hyde of Bowdoin College...
...MEAD.DEUTSCHER VEREIN. There will be a meeting of the Deutscher Verein Thursday evening, January 6, at half past seven, in Stoughton 21. Dr. Francke will speak of Goethe's Helena (Faust, Part...
...publish an excerpt from a recent criticism of public speaking at Harvard, which is creating wide comment. It certainly is not difficult to account for such a criticism. It is merited and the writer has far from overstated the facts as they exist. It has long been deemed among the students a trivial matter to pursue any regular course of voice instruction and the natural result is that for several years the public speaking has been as a rule execrable. The speaking at commencement would disgrace any other college than that one which so proudly holds such matters light. When...
...government to some decided action as is seen in the president's message, and will be felt in the coming Congress. The present condition of the Indian Civil Service is also engaging the attention of the Civil Reform Association, and it is in this cause that Mr. Welsh will speak in Sanders Theatre to-night...
...hope that the report is not exaggerated, especially when we think what unestimable benefits can be procured by such a bequest. The erection of a new dormitory alone ought to immortalize the generous donor. However, it will be well to delay further comment until we can speak with more certainty of the bequest...