Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American student who did not speak German would not be liable to take a course in German literature at a German University, but a German student did that here several years ago. He spoke no English, took a course in English and was coached by his classmates. He showed great interest and desired to express it to the professor, so he went to his well-wishing classmates for some coaching on what...
...quid pro quo, it is gratifying to see men going out of their way to serve the public interest without hope of reward. It has meant a great deal of work on the part of Dr. McKhann and the other doctors whom he has persuaded to speak. It is not easy for a specialist to make himself clear to a lay audience, let alone make himself popular. It has called for laborious preparation as well as the sacrifice of a Sunday afternoon. Yet the success of the series is obvious from the number of late-comers who have...
...time has come for red-haired Harold McBride Thurston '40 of Lowell House and Muskegon, Illinois, to speak of many things . . . including cabbages and kittens. Thurston has a female friend in Muskegon called Jane. He sent her a cabbage. She sent him a collect telegram. He refused the latter, at her expense...
Governor George H. Earle '11 of Pennsylvania will speak to the Freshman Class in the Union at 7:30 o'clock on Monday, it was announced last night by Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 Chairman of the Union Committee...
...Malcolm S. MacLean, Director of the General College of the University of Minnesota, has been chosen to deliver the annual public Inglis Lecture in Secondary Education, under the auspices of the Graduate School of Education, Dean Henry W. Holmes announced today. He will speak on Wednesday, February 23, at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Museum on the subject of "Scholars, Workers and Gentlemen," discussing contemporary educational conflicts in the United States and the type of educational structure likely to emerge from these conflicts...