Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commencement program of Kentucky Military Institute at Lyndon, Ky., near Louisville, carried the name of Mark A. Hanna III. His high marks, averaging 93%, had won him the highest honors of the 1927 class; he was to make the valedictory address. When, later, he rose to speak, an 18-year-old oval-cheeked boy, he reminded auditors of an able man whom he had never seen-the late U. S. Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, his great grandfather, who died...
...ancient but ill-kept farm, Saltacres, close by a marshy lake and near to a sleepy town. The farm has an aristocratic history, the lake an island bearing an abandoned hermitage and consequent legends, the town a legion of characters in whose existence English custom could well speak and from whose mouths her lesser and provincial lore could proceed in a more complete and interesting manner. The setting and the material must have opened to Mr. Reid many opportunities for elaboration and diversification of his tale. He evidently lacked either the requisite desire, daring, or technique...
...thoughts at times revolving tumultuously there as though they were animated by the seed of truth and must therefore out, yet again subsiding in acknowledged error, and at the same time to see harvests of wealth and reputation won at first blush by those who could not wait to speak, yet lost upon the entrance of the next eager voice, this is, not perhaps to enjoy learning at all times, but to discover an unbroken path to continually greater wisdom. Restraint, seclusion, and observation are well-known watchwords of the simon pure student...
...annual series of discussions of religion as related to every-day life will begin on November 6, when Roscoe Pound Hon '20, Dean of the Law School, will speak on "Religion and Law." Other speakers definitely chosen for the first half of this course include Dr. Michael Pupin, who is listed to discuss "Religion and Science" on November 20. Dean W. B. Donham '98, of the Business School, who will talk on "Religion and Business" on November 27, and Dr. R. C. Cabot '89, of the Department of Social Ethics, who is scheduled for December 4 to speak on "Religion...
...regular list of speakers has not yet been compiled. Invitations to speak will be sent to Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York State, and possible Presidential nominee of the Democratic party. Henry Ford, and Charles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of State and Republican Presidential nominee...