Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first speaker in the new series will be Reginald H. Phelps, Assistant Dean of the College and Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who will speak tomorrow night on "The Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia." Future speakers are Kendric N. Marshall, instructor in Government and Donald C. McKay, instructor in History...
When asked whether a small class was particularly adaptable to the case system, as other schools with smaller classes than Harvard claim, Landis said that you could not generalize about this. "A large class does make people think before they speak," he said. "The resentment of the class against trivialities helps to keep discussion relevant. The problem is one of getting morale and evoking a variety of ideas...
...program says "Members of the Courtney School have taken tables"--and here they come; with the plainness of youth in their faces they hurry self-consciously down the aisle. Betty Alden has left her Beacon Hill underworld to jot notes on criminals at large and passes by to speak to the Herald's music critic. Tomorrow we will see in her column, "Miss So-and-So came down from the North Shore and wore sophisticated black . . . . Miss Snitz, one of our most charming buds, was enjoying herself among the older people," etc. The whole evening--the music, the audience...
Sally came up to Cambridge in order to speak on ethics, to the tune of "be intellectual frontiersmen." She bucked the side remarks and questions hurled at her to make a plea for better political and labor union administration...
...College man's ideal companion on a desert Island." She didn't find out. The boys served her tea, showed her the beauties of Morningside Heights at sunset, but refused blushingly to collaborate on the reasons they chose her, foremost of which in the poll was "her ability to speak French." Only 50 of Columbia's students were permitted to meet her David Periman, editor of the Columbia Spectator, selected them and made hundreds of enemies...