Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowra, Warden of Wadham College and professor of Poetry at Oxford College, will deliver his fourth lecture on The Romantic Imagination tomorrow. He will speak on "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" in New Lecture Hall...
...incident alone illustrates Hopkins' enormous influence. On Oct. 3, 1944, Roosevelt had cabled Churchill implying that he (Churchill) could speak for the U.S. on Balkan affairs when he next saw Stalin. F.D.R. had written a cable to Stalin to the same effect; when Hopkins heard about it he ordered the White House map room to stop the Stalin cable. The cable officers obeyed without question. Then Hopkins went to F.D.R.'s bedroom, where the President was shaving, told him what he had done, and persuaded him that the U.S. should always speak for itself. Roosevelt admitted that...
This mental bloc, so to speak, reacted in the teams they brought with them to the Stadium. So, what was generally interpreted as Stadiumitis on the part of Brown, was in reality a combined fear and awe-of Harvard, planted in Brown, by the coaches themselves...
Although J. Bruce Munro, the soccer coach, was appointed to his job only in September of this year, the team has not suffered from readjustment troubles. A former All-American player of the speak-softly school, Munro has had fine personnel relations and performed the intricate task of keeping some 40 players out for a sport without a Jayvee schedule...
...Comstock Notestein, Radcliffe President emeritus, will speak at the reception, and a full-length portrait of Dean Cronkhite will be presented to the College, William Abbott Cheever was the artist...