Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man will be delivered this year by William Douglas MacKenzie, theologian, author, and lecturer, it was learned last night. Dr. MacKenzie who is president of the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Hartford, Connecticut, will speak in Emerson Hall in the latter part of April...
During the morning of January 28, Mr. Bingham will speak at the Blake School in St. Paul, as the guest of John Briggs '06, son of former Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs '75. Following a luncheon tendered him by the Harvard Club of St. Paul at noon on that day, Mr. Bingham will visit St. Paul Academy. This academy and the Blake School are two of the best known country day schools of the middle west. In the evening Mr. Bingham will be the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Minnesota...
...pound class: Crispin Cboke '32 defeated George Speak '32 by fall...
Many consider the newly proposed calendar a needlessly confused system. To speak of thirteen months, no one of which has more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that leap year comes only once in four. This would mean a simplified education in perfect harmony with the modern tendency among older people to master the French language in a dozen lessons from a correspondence school...
...talkie has caused a crisis. First the talkie has greatly increased competition in the cinema business?Fox and the Warner Brothers having taken a talkie lead. Second, if the talkies become dominant, the U. S. may lose its position in foreign markets because U. S. stars can, at best, speak only one language at a time. Therefore, when Mr. Zukor finally pronounced in favor of the talkie, he issued orders for a curtailment of reckless Hollywood expenditures...