Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delivering the first Morris Gray talk of the year, Hervey Allen, widely known poet and novelist, will speak tonight on one of his intimate acquaintances. Amy Lowell. The lecture will be held in the new Poetry Room on the third floor of Widener Library, dedicated to Morris Gray '77, Amy Lowell, and George Woodberry '77, and filled with their priceless collections of rare and first-edition poetical works. The room is small and attendance at this lecture is limited of necessity. The talk will be held at 7.30 o'clock...
...learning French? Or are we learning a dead language based on an artificial, academic standard which may have been perfect from-in 1898. I grant the difficulty of employing as readers only men who speak and read contemporary Parisian French. But these gentlemen should take that fact into consideration; they should consider all possible interpretations and give the student the benefit of the doubt where a doubt exists; they should remember that while there are numerous cases on which all authorities would agree, there are half as many more on which no two agree--and concede the point; they should...
...giving his third talk as the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for this year, Professor Sigarther Nordal will speak on "The Sagas of Iceland" tomorrow in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4 o'clock...
Freshman hockey will get under way today at 5.30 o'clock, when there will be a meeting for all candidates for the team in the Union. Clark Hodder '25, Freshman coach, and C. C. Cunningham '32, captain of the University team, will speak to the candidates on the prospects for the coming season. Practice for the 1935 players begins tomorrow afternoon in the Boston Garden, and will continue regularly until the Christmas Recess, during which their will be no practice. There will be only informal practice during the midyear period...
...typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston has been a sort of Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week? When did the first Muscle Shoals bill pass? Who got a black eye for calling Ben Till man a liar?* The answer to all such questions: "Ask Preston." Friendly and help ful about the gallery, Jim Preston, in his loose, wrinkled...