Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as he began to speak, his hearers were impressed with the sincerity which he radiated. He confessed that he was frankly envious of the students at Harvard, ahead of whom lay all life's opportunities, for whom foundations are here being laid to help them build beautiful palaces, instead of mud huts...
...this setting poets and critics will be brought to speak to gatherings of Harvard undergraduates. No more than 40 or 50 students will be expected at a time in order that the donor's wishes for small and friendly conversations, rather than platform speeches, may be carried out. Only undergraduates will be present at these talks...
Gipsy Smith, colorful Evangelist who has been drawing crowds mounting into the thousands during his present campaign in Boston, will speak at the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, according to an announcement made yesterday by J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of the organization...
Three further lectures, which were announced yesterday, will bring to those interested, discussions of widely different subjects. On March 21, R. G. Hawtrey, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Whitehall, London, who is now delivering the Lowell Institute lectures in Boston, will speak on the British Treasury. On March 28, there will be a talk on "Political Theory and Political Practice" by Ernest Barker, professor at Cambridge University; and Charles Beard will lecture on "Hair Trigger Governments in Eastern Europe" on April...
Cocky as always, the little Welsh David chose to speak on St. David's Day, in a hall decked with crisp Welsh jonquils. "Stanley Baldwin reminds me," he chirped, "of a driver who finds his cart stuck in a rut and sits there smoking his pipe, saying 'Leave it to the horse...