Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such precision and it is too good to allow him to write something of his very own. Today occurs in Emerson 211 what the Vagabond feels is one of the finest lectures in College. He has heard it twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame of Victor Hugo, and the Montmartre of Du Maurier and the Vagabond must fight with DeFarge, pour lead with Quasimodo, and swagger along the boulevards with Taffy...
...commodities to pour in from outside nations that are badly in need of markets? If a readjustment in business relations is to take place, it seems a valid argument that manufacturers in the United States, with their higher costs, and more expanded production capacities, should be reluctant to speak for lower duties. In a run-down world where business expansion seems temporarily ended, producers in the United States may wish to keep their domestic markets at least, strangled as they may be without running the risk of exposing themselves to foreign, low cost producers. Ritchie states his belief in tariff...
...Harvard athletic director, who is a member of the National Intercollegiate football rules committee, will speak on the new changes in football rules and the aims of the rules committee. A number of other prominent sports figures are expected to attend the conference, among them E. K. Dall, chairman of the football committee, and Harry Hillman of Dartmouth...
Harvard will uphold the negative of the question "Resolved, That some form of socialism should be adopted in the United States". There will be six speakers, and each man is to speak for 15 minutes, with the exception of the first who will be given ten minutes, with a five-minute rebuttal. The Crimson participants, in the order in which they will speak, are W. A. McGivney '33, H. M. Lawn '34, D. M. Sullivan '33, and R. H. Amberg '33 (alternate). The negative speakers are Bodimer, Smith, and Grabill...
...people are going to look for Wet candidates in November. Eventually I think the Prohibition question will be settled on the basis of State's rights." Back in Washington where Dry leaders were shocked and hurt by his words, Secretary Hurley hastened to explain: "When I want to speak in quotation on Prohibition, the words will be mine and not what someone else supposes I have said. I didn't mention Prohibition in my address in Chicago nor did I mention it anywhere else for publication...