Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will deliver the twenty-fourth in the series of free public lectures this evening at 8 o'clock at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston. His subject will be "Dental Hygiene in the School and Home." Tomorrow afternoon t 4 o'clock Dr. A. T. Cabot '72 will speak on "State Work in Tuberculosis...
...Municipal Club was formally organized. Its object is to investigate and make a study of city government in the United States, and it will be aided in this through lectures by prominent municipal reformers. Sylvester Baxter, Robert Treat Paine '88, Lincoln Stiffens, and C. R. Woodruff have consented to speak before the club...
...Peony W. Long '98, of the editorial staff of Webster's Dictionary, will speak on "The History and Development of the English Dictionary" in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. The take is given in connection with the fourth of the Weekly exhibitions held in the Treasure Room of the Library Illustrating the resources of the Library in some particular field. Mr. Long will speak again tomorrow in the Treasure Room at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, on "English Dictionaries from the Earliest Times to the Present." An interesting series of English dictionaries extending from early times...
...second year Law class will hold a smoker in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 8.45 o'clock. Dean J.B. Ames '68 will introduce Mr. J. Byrne '77, who will speak on "The Railway Rate Litigation of 1907." Professor F. H. Warren '95 also will speak...
...Bangs said that he once was fortunate enough to be at a banquet in honor of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. When his turn came to speak, feeling particularly impudent, he asked Mr. Carnegie, why, if he wished to do something really worth while for American literature, he did not carefully seek out the six worst authors in America, and pay them a salary to refrain absolutely from writing. "That is an excellent idea," replied Mr. Carnegie, "what is your address...