Word: speaks
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...problem in pure mathematics. As one who has (in 1906) worked in the upper reaches of differential and integral calculus, and who has also spent many years (not recently) in the study of checkers and in original analysis of published match and tournament games, I may be privileged to speak on this phase. Curiously enough, chess has been almost wholly the choice of the intelligensia (real and fancied) and has been given, of course, widest publicity by the press. Again, the game of chess has enjoyed the favor, as a rule, of those who possessed rather more of this world...
...method of evangelizing he described in his quaint autobiography: "Whenever I saw a man committing a sin, I reproved him, and then a multitude would gather around me. I would then begin to speak to them from a text of the Scripture, and would continue to speak as long as there was anyone to hear. Then the policeman would lay hold upon me, and drag me off to the police office, and my wife would get me out, and I would begin to preach again as if nothing had happened. Altogether I was nine or ten times in prison...
...Dougherty, Professor of Assyriology at Yale and annual Porfessor of the American School of Oriental Reserach in Bagdad, will speak on "An Archaelogical Tour in Southern Babylonia" at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room in the Semitic Museum. The lecture will be illustrated and is open to the public...
...Henry Lunn, internationally known traveler, writer and religious leader, will speak on the subject "Can Christendom Save Civilization?" At the Episcopal Theological School at 8 o'clock this evening. The lecture is open to the public...
They are given on Thursday afternoons in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum and are open to the public. He will speak tomorrow on "Les Manuscrits Illustres...