Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strife, there was never greater need of sober thought than now. Let us control rather than restrain our wonderful vitality, now bordering closely upon the hysterical, by a serious consideration of things as they are. Let us not turn deaf ears to advisers who know of what they speak. We owe it to our soldiers that they may go forth not less bravely but with open and determined minds, realizing that it is to battle and not to sport they go. This war is not one of headlines and billheads, it is man against man in deadly earnest...
...Freshmen will speak as follows: at 5 o'clock, affirmative--R. B. Hamblett, M. J. Douner, B. I. Sperling; negative, H. Albert, H. S. Fraine, L. E. Spivak; at 8 o'clock, affirmative L. M. Block, M. A. Kallis, C. H. Wheldon; negative, W. S. Holbrook, H. Starr, J. D. Segal. From these men two teams of three men each and three alternates will be chosen to represent the class in the triangular debate with the Yale and Princeton freshmen...
...Friday evenings at the same place and time. Any Freshman may try out for the team, and all who intend to enter the competition should be present tonight. Men who have a Military Science lecture at the hour set may report later in the evening. Each candidate will speak for five minutes on either side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of military service modeled after that of Switzerland." Members of the University debating team will act as judges...
...final trials on Friday night for men who are retained from the preliminaries. All the trials, both preliminary and final, will be held in Harvard 6 at 7.45 o'clock, but men who have Military Science lectures at that hour will be permitted to report late. Each candidate will speak for five minutes on either side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of military service modeled after that of Switzerland." Members of the University debating team will act as judges...
...Faxon, president of the class of 1921, will preside at the festivities, and will made a short address. J. A. Sessions, class secretary-treasurer, will also speak, and J. M. Mitchell, who is chairman of the 1921 Third Liberty Loan Committee, will tell of the part the class will play in floating the new bond issue...