Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York lawyer and member of the Harvard Corporation; Professor-Emeritus Frank W. Taussig '79, president of the Harvard Alumni Association; Mackey Wells '07, head of the Associated Clubs this year; and the new leader, who will be elected by the convention for the ensuing year, are also slated to speak...
...Tercentenary, his action as the student--all of which has won commendation from the press, have shot Harvard up to the crest achieved by Eliot. At this meeting, then, President Conant will see the reaction of alumni at first hand, and like a good newspaperman he will speak the right kind and amount of information to make that reaction favorable...
...movie runs thirty-five minutes and is unexpectedly clearly printed. Without closeups and the moving camera, the technique of acting is quaintly cramped, all action moving from side to side before the lens. Since they cannot speak, the players use magnificent gestures and grimaces to convey their emotions, and this very burlesque of over-acting is amusing to moderns. The "immortal Sarah" is a disappointment, for although the cinema may not be her medium, she has no right to shatter dreams by being a dumpy, lame, old woman. Anybody who takes the movies seriously will be fascinated by this page...
Into the mind of aged Eleanor, who thinks deeper thoughts than her old, busy, muddled brain can speak, Virginia Woolf puts her final suggestion: "Is there a pattern?'' she asks. "A theme, recurring, like music; half remembered, half foreseen? ... a gigantic pattern, momentarily perceptible?" Nobody answers the question; but the sun. which presumably knows its part in the gigantic pattern, rises...
President Lowell, who will speak briefly at the ceremonies, is the author of the following inscription, above which is a bas-relief bust of Mr. Pennypacker...