Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year, Yale's ten brightest Seniors sat in Connecticut Hall scribbling answers to a Harvard English examination. They could smoke, but honor bound them not to speak, peer or signal. At the same time Harvard's "ten brightest" took the same examination under like conditions in Cambridge. The Harvard men made the highest marks and thereby won a "brain contest" originated and financed-with a foundation of $125,000-by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of Harvard's President. The victors' spoils were $5,000 worth of books (TIME...
...fortnight, nervous and be-spatted Publisher Harrison refused to discuss onetime Editor Frankau. He also refused to discuss the purpose of his visit to the U.S., beyond the usual foreigner's phrase: "I am studying America." But, in alternately low-voiced and explosive sentences, he was ready to speak of his fondness for golf; his many publications (including Tatler, Sketch, and Daily Chronicle); his 25 paper mills in England, Scotland, Germany; and his 1,500,000 acres of esparto grass in northern Africa...
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, Dr. G. J. Esselen, Jr., of Skinner, Sherman, and Esselen Inc. will speak in the lecture room of the Coolidge Chemical Laboratory on "Cellulose, a brief consideration of its significance in world affairs since the dawn of civilization, something of its chemistry and present uses, and a glimpse of its future possibilities...
Professors Coolidge and Greenough will also speak on the House Plan...
...greatest authorities in the field of economics in the world, in the person of Dr. Gottlieb Habberler of the University of Vienna, will speak this morning on "Statistics and Index Numbers." Those interested in the subject can hear the lecture at 10 o'clock in Economics...