Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politically, Mr. Curtis is a man of the party was their faithful watchman. He was an indifferent speaker. He is no orator today; seldom does he speak from the floor. It is in the party caucuses, in the committee rooms, in the cloakrooms that he patches up troubles, puts through legislation. His friends are many; his personality vexes few; the public is not conscious...
...college, writes in the Nation. "A few letters, written in his precise longhand," with "some of the Olympian sweep of his spirit," form the only personal contact between the two men. Robert Littell in the New Republic recalls his early days as a teacher under Dr. Eliot, speaks of the warmth that lay under his austere interior, and of the calm and passionless force with which he gave rebuke or praise. Edwin Mead writes in the Springfield Republican of the courageous Eliot, the man who did not fear to speak his mind, even if he went unheeded in the face...
...perhaps most important and which certainly is best known to this last fringe of the countless students who have passed under his interest, is the social bravery which stamped every one of his actions. Whether as University administrator or as commentator on national affairs, Dr. Eliot never hesitated to speak his opinion. An implacable enemy of jingoism and of militarism, he at the same time tempered his principles with wisdom. The Anti-Imperalist League which won such undeserved unpopularity in 1898 had no more ardent nor outspoken leader than the President of Harvard University. We of this generation...
...becomes a painful duty to speak of something which has been apparent ever since the rumpus over the Princeton number: What the Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. It is doubtful whether light poetry has ever been published which was as bad as this. The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more springly than oafish malice...
This evening at 6.45 o'clock Juan Bobadilla of Chile will speak on the topic, "Latin America" in the Standish Hall Common Room. The meeting this evening is the fourth and concluding meeting of a series of talks on "Internationalism" held under the auspices of the Harvard Mission. Mr. Bobadilla secured his early education at a Mission School in Chile, and by great efforts succeeded in coming to the United States in 1921 to complete his education. At the present time he is taking a premedical course at Brown University, and is spending part of his time as an instructor...