Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carver. David Wells Professor of Political Economy, will speak tomorrow afternoon in Phillips Brooks House at 4 o'clock, on the subject. "How Good Does One Need to Be?" This lecture is the second in a series of lectures on religion which is being given under the auspices of Phillips Brooks House...
Professor M. Allison Peers, Head of the Department of Spanish in the University of Liverpool. Will speak Friday evening at 8 oclock in Emerson J., on the subject. "The Nature of Spanish Romanticism...
Professor Max Bodenheim of the University of Berlin will speak this afternoon in the Mallinckrodt Large Lecture Room at 4.30 o'clock on "Chemical Actions of Light". This lecture will be given under the auspices of the Department of Chemistry...
...China. To read, write and speak Chinese is an asset invaluable to any U. S. diplomat in the Orient. Such a linguist is Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (salary: $9,000). Last week President Hoover sent his name to the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Minister to China (salary: $12,000) to succeed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, resigned. Than Minister Johnson no U. S. diplomat is more versed in the customs and curiosities, the politics and problems of China where, as student interpreter, he began his foreign service career 22 years...
Reporters from Berlin who sought out tall, handsome Municher Mann found him quietly working at his latest novel, Joseph and His Brothers, a first venture into Biblical fiction. He would not talk of it, was lured to speak of his newest book, Mario and the Magician, which he wrote last summer in a wicker bath chair on the brim of the Baltic. "I find it quite possible," he gossiped, "to write a novelette while surrounded by noisy folks on a beach." Solemnly: "I am sincerely delighted with this great honor. I welcome it the more because I have always been...