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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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First, a want of logic, almost absurdity. characters say the opposite of what they would naturally say, and do the opposite of what they would naturally do. They do not speak; they declaim. The situations are exceptional and extraordinary. The characters are all conventional: The old man, the young man pursued by fate, the traitor, the mysterious man who knows everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifth Lecture by M. Doumic. | 3/11/1898 | See Source »

...speak of its services to Freshman debating, almost the existence of a Freshman club rests on the interest aroused by rivalry with some other organization, and now that Yale freshman debates are forbidden some definite adversary is needed to keep the men up to their best work and render the club as good a training ground as possible. This service the Sophomore Club has thus far well rendered, and the importance of continuing the good work must be recognized. In its contests with the Freshman Club it labors under the disadvantage of having its honorary members who are on either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1898 | See Source »

...debate this evening at 7 o'clock in Sever 11. The question will be: "Resolved, That the conduct of the United States Senate in recent years justifies the conclusion that it has suffered a permanent deterioration." Speeches will be limited to four minutes. Twelve men will be retained to speak at the second trial on March 17. F. O. White '99, L. G. O. Smith 1900, and J. A. H. Keith Sp., will act as judges. The interclub debate will come on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Trial Debate. | 3/10/1898 | See Source »

HARVARD ENGINEERING SOCIETY.- Meeting of civil section tonight at 2 Grays at 7.45. Mr. R. J. Forsythe will speak on the "Manufacture of Armor piercing Projectiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 3/9/1898 | See Source »

...NASH, Professor in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge and Rector of the Church of the Redeemer at Chestnut Hill, will speak in Saint John's Chapel on Brattle street, tonight at the evening service at half past five. Members of the University are invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 3/8/1898 | See Source »

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