Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entered the Limbo of broken idols, with Florence Nightingale, Queen Victoria, George Washington, and Galahad. A certain Captain Wright in his "Portraits and Criticisms" asserts that "Mr. Gladstone...founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity, in public to speak the language of the highest and the strictest principles, and in private to pursue and possess any sort of woman." Gladstone's sons have retorted by telling Captain Wright that he is a liar; Captain Wright has delivered the last counter-check in suing the Gladstone...
Following the usual procedure in triangular debates, each institution will send two teams to the rostrum, one speaking at home while the other will speak on a foreign platform. In this case, the orators defending the affirmative side of the question will travel. The Crimson will engage the Brown speakers at Cambridge and Wesleyan at Middletown, Connecticut...
...This statement is entirely unofficial as I am not authorized to speak in any capacity for my University. I understand however that officials of the University used every effort to discourage publication of the article...
...February 17 at 8 o'clock in Sever 36. At these trials, the candidates will deliver five minute speeches treating either side of the subject, "Resolved; That the adoption of the Franco-American debt settlement is to the best interests of France" Six men will be chosen to speak in the finals on March 3. These speeches will be of 10 minutes duration, and on either side of the question...
...that the authorities leave such petty matters is murder and theft for a while and concentrate their effort on the suppression of those criminals who have something fundamentally bad about them. For murderers can eustly be cured with a few yards of hemp, but those crimes of which we speak strike far deeper into the natures of their perpetrators. Among the proscribed we should like to place; those he men who go around these zero mornings without coats: people who stay up all night before an examination; people who have six exams...