Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orator. His father, a big, kindly, stoop-shouldered man, was a druggist who became a Democrat in Republican South Dakota when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before he was out of grammar school, Hubert Jr. went along to Democratic rallies and conventions, saw his father become first alderman, then mayor of Doland...
Relatively few Americans had been out to Asia, and few had the heebie-jeebies over it. The new Truman budget (see above) cut the China aid program to ribbons. Last week one man did speak out firmly, and he spoke out firmly even if many Americans regarded the whole subject of China as something to be swept beneath the rug and ignored...
Football & Mumbo Jumbo. There had been time, though, to speak his mind, and some of his dicta on U.S. education had made him a controversial figure. He had called academic freedom "mumbo jumbo," said that "a piece of rubber hose is at times worth ten years of the new [educational] psychology." He had come to Fordham in the days of its great mid '30s football teams, had taken a wartime opportunity to halt football altogether, allowed it to return (in 1946) on only a very chastened scale. Said Gannon: "We want to get [it] off the vaudeville stage...
...University requires every student to write the English language well and read a foreign one, but the ability to speak effectively is taken for granted. Being able to present ideas orally in a forceful manner will be as important to the average student as skill in writing, for the world will definitely call upon him to talk about his ideas more often than write them. The University, however, not only fails to require work in speech, but makes it impossible to obtain instruction equivalent to what is required in writing. Although four half-courses are offered in speech, only...
Robert Frost will speak after a Kirkland House dinner at 7:15 p.m. tonight in the Junior Common Room. He will talk on American poetry as well as give readings from his own work...