Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high school had heard stories that oboe-playing endangered the brain, but when I asked our local family physician about it, he said he had never heard of it. and could not see how the damage would come about. Now in your last issue (March 25, p. 50) you speak of "the doctors treatises which warn all oboe-players against congestion in the head." W ill you please advise me whether this statement is facetious, and if not. what is your authority for it? I know that the oboe is an expensive instrument, but if it also turns...
...Coolidge, Newton, Hapgood, Heald, Kramer, and Skinner, who had the courage to speak in the face of unsportsmanlike heckling...
...will go on the air tonight from Radio City, whereas their Hawaiian rivals John Casstevens and Robert North, will uphold the affirmative side of the question from station KGU in Honolulu Oscar Shepard, president of the Harvard Club of Honolulu, will introduce the four orators, each of whom will speak for six minutes...
Admiral William S. Sims will speak on the situation in the Pacific at the present time, in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House after supper tomorrow night. After his talk he will answer any questions that members of the House may care to ask. Sims was attached to the Asiatic fleet for many years, and he had command of the American naval forces operating in European waters during the World War. As a result of this command, he was awarded an LL.D. degree by both Harvard and Yale...
Well-informed men active in law, medicine, diplomacy, and journalism will speak informally Saturday morning on their respective professions. The round-tables and the Friday night and Saturday afternoon sessions which will consist of prepared addresses, will be open only to those who register for the Conference...