Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Hitherto the continued maintenance of a course such as English A has been justified as a measure of social prevention, so to speak. Slightly altering the words of the founders of Harvard College, we may say that our academic forebears instituted this course, "dreading to leave an illiterate body of undergraduates to the college, when our present scholars shall lie in the dust." The purpose of English A, therefore, has heretofore been to insure among the undergraduates a fair knowledge and ability in the writing of English composition. In what conceivable way, then, is the value of this course...
...Warburg is one of the chief exponents of the League to Enforce Peace. It was at a dinner given by him and attended by President Lowell, William H. Taft, and others, that the idea of such a league was actually started in this country. He will speak on some subject connected with the League of Nations...
There is no need to dwell on the importance, especially in the immediate future, of the subjects offered by the McKay school. Their enormous value and practicability speak for themselves. The important fact is that schedules are offered for both graduates and undergraduates. From this time on the possessor of the University's B.S. degree will have a higher standing, while men holding degrees of Mining Engineer, Doctor of Science and the like will be in as great demand throughout the country as are the honor men at the Law School. The Engineering School opens at a most auspicious time...
...forum was opened last night by Professor G. G. Wilson, who spoke on "Our New International Relations;" tonight Reverened W. H. Crook of Boston will speak on "The New England after the War" and "Labor and the Coming Election;" Mrs. Forrest Rivinus of the Cantabrigia Club will preside. Tomorrow evening Professor A. B. Hart will speak on "The New United States of America after the War;" Robert Burns, exalted ruler of the Cambridge Elks will preside. On Sunday, Dr. Glenn Frank, associate editor of The Century Magazine, will speak on "The League of Nations;" Dr. Raymond Calkins, D.D., will preside...
Professor A. E. Kennelly, S.D, A.M., who has just returned from England and France where he has been engaged in government engineering work, will speak in Sever 11 Monday evening at 8 o'clock. He will tell of some of his experiences and observations made while abroad...