Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next talk of the series will be by Paul M. A. Linebarger, who will speak on "Democracy and Dictatorship in Modern China" on April 7. On April 14 Wassily W. Leontiff, assistant professor of Economics, will explain problems of "The National Income...
...students will speak tonight in the finals of he competition for the Lee Wade and the Boylston Prizes for Elocution, which will take place in Paine Hall, of the Music Building, at 8 o'clock. These ten were chosen in a preliminary competition from 33 applicants...
...three major sportsmen who now alone speak for the College in the Committee for the Regulation of Athletic Sports are symbols of a past era in Harvard Athletics. At every opportunity Mr. Bingham reiterates his intention to discourage big-time sports in favor of intramurals, and to catch up to Yale's record of 55 per cent of the students on house teams. When this hope becomes a reality, it will be clearly necessary to give average students a vote in the supreme court. It may prove an important help to the evolution of the Student Council's recommendations...
Evidence of a healthy public awakening to the lures of improved speech is shown, moreover, by the wide diversity of material which is lending itself to public discussion. As an illustration, the ten students tonight will speak on subjects ranging from "The Supreme Court Tribunal" to "Hector's Farewell to Andromache," and they will speak because they have something important to say, not for mere theatrical arm-waving. Each one chosen for better-than-average mastery of delivery, these ten, in their struggle for the prizes, are raising their voices in the cause for better speaking, furnishing impetus...
Professor Griswold will testify as an opponent to the President's proposal for reorganization of the judiciary. He is one of a number of prominent opponents to the court change who will appear as witnesses against it. Among others who are to speak before the Committee are Dorothy Thompson, noted columnist, and Henry M. Bates, dean of the Law School of the University of Michigan...