Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this sole required course for Freshmen is to teach through discipline the how of writing. To speak is easy, even for the moron, but not to write. Expression on paper is perhaps the most difficult task that the educated man has to meet. A surprising number pass through Harvard knowing nothing about English literature and--most significant--ignorant of good grammar. To avoid a one-sided training, to stimulate the clarifying and transmitting of ideas, the University should compel, as a primary function, a writing course for every student, regardless of whether he escapes English...
...chairman of the Spanish Nationalist relief committee, A. Hamilton Rice '98, Professor of Geographical Exploration and Director of the Geographical Institute will speak tomorrow night at Symphony Hall at a mass meeting on behalf of Fascist Spain...
...Cameron Forbes' '92, former Governor-General of the Phillipines and former U. S. ambassador to Japan, will also speak. War correspondent Jane An- derson, who was roundly hissed when she attempted to reveal the truth about Spain here last winter, is also in the program
...forced to second it-the nation's press spent the rest of the week speculating on what, since he wanted nothing and had also promised to give no advice, Mr. Ford was going to the White House for. As to this, neither Mr. Ford-who is scheduled to speak at the A. N. P. A. convention in New York City the evening after his White House visit -nor Franklin Roosevelt had anything...
...Roosevelt and the press. He was called back to Paris to become Chief of the American Section of the Quai d'Orsay, but State Department propheteers are sure he will ultimately return as Ambassador. He is the ace of the French diplomatic service in dealing with persons who speak English or American. He speaks both to perfection-either clipped, impeccable King's English or broad, robust United States...