Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took an awful lot of negotiating but everything has turned out fine. "Copey" is going to speak to the Freshmen again...
...President Conant reconsider his decision to send Harvard delegates to the Heldelberg 550th anniversary in view of the recent revelations of Hitlerite propaganda in connection with the celebration, will be put before the House. This resolution will be carefully discussed, and anyone who wishes to exercise his lungs may speak. The Union, however, doesn't seem to realize that it is a little too late to withdraw Harvard's delegates from the Heldelberg gathering, and it presumes that President Conant and the Corporation accepted the invitation to participate in the celebration entirely unfamiliar with the existing situation in Germany...
...deliver the Society's triennial series of talks," as stated in TIME. He does not speak for the Society at all, hasn't for years. His talks in Holland will not be held on the Society's estate at Ommen. The Society does not own it and has no interest...
...ability to put himself in your place, and then--to speak. Sympathetic knowledge of human nature we call it, and the gift of expression. . . . He could enter at will into the thoughts and feelings of a wide range of human beings in a multitude of experiences and under circumstances of infinite variety, and then he could make them speak, not as they would have spoken in real life,--for most of us are dumb or tongue-tied, particularly when we have anything to say. . . . In addition he had the gift of poetry--define it if you can. And, to close...
...primary purpose of Dean Birkoff's European trip this summer is to speak at the Oslo International Mathematics Congress which opens on July 13, and he will probably not spend more than a few days at Heidelberg. He will not lecture there, his official function being merely to extend Harvard greetings...