Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significant is the report that comes from Oglethorpe University. Recently a professor, tinged with red, of a rival institution, was invited to speak to the International Relations Club. When he arrived, he was met by the spring football squad and firmly convinced that his presence was undesirable. "A most refreshing exhibition of good, old-fashioned Americanism," commented Oglethorpe's president, Thornwell Jacobs...
...Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...
...Central Committee advance information for assigning rooms, it has been decided to require students to turn in their study cards with their choice of concentration on March 15. A general meeting of Freshmen will be held on March 2 at which various members of the Faculty will speak to explain the purposes of concentration and factors on which choices should be made...
Tommy Hunter, Varsity cox, will address a meeting of prospective Freshman candidates for that position on the 1938 crew tonight at 7 o'clock in the Upstairs Common Room of the Union. Charlie Whiteside and Bert Haines, Varsity and Freshman mentors, are also scheduled to speak...
...Copley Theatre. There ye are allowed, nay, even urged, to exert your exuberance in any manner short of breaking chairs. Fit buit for your witty sallies is that touching dra-a-ama, resurrected in all its pristine glory from P.T. Barnum's American Museum, vintage 18 34,--I speak of "The Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved". Ye may hiss the deep-dyed villian, Lawyer Cribbs; ye may shout "Look out," or "Youse is a viper," as he prepares to enmesh in his toils that jewel, that unfortunate yet loyal wife of the intemperate Edward Middleton. Ye may join lustily...