Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friends: "We do not set anyone apart whose special duty it is to supply the spoken word in our meetings. . . . the experienced speaker should be watchful not to speak at undue length."-(The Book of Discipline.) The committee of overseers has the responsibility of insuring at each meeting the presence of some person of whose inner urge to vocal ministry it is reasonably sure...
...prepared to sit as chairman of the all-India Mohammedan Congress. Meanwhile at Calcutta (eastern India) the predominantly Hindu so-called Indian National Congress, met under the chairmanship of Pandit Motilal Nehru, and under the aegis of sainted Mahatma Gandhi. These two gatherings-neither of them Parliamentary or authoritative-speak for Mother India, insofar as she is articulate. The pity is that too often her Moslems and Hindus speak at absolute cross purposes. Last week, however, each assemblage met with fervent protestations that at last Hindu-Moslem unity against the British Raj was about to be attained. Dubious, sympathetic observers...
Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Harvard Faculty Committee on Admission, will leave on January 19 for a tour of the South, which will last three weeks and take him as far as Atlanta. He will speak in schools of the principal Southern cities and confer with principals and teachers on questions of admission to college. Incidentally he will talk to Harvard Clubs and other meetings of Harvard men, discussing with them the newest developments in Cambridge and answering their questions about the University. His prime subject, however, is to acquaint educators and pupils with entrance requirements of the Eastern...
Raleigh, North Carolina, is the first stop on his this year's itinerary. He will visit the local high school there and speak before a dinner of Harvard men. January 22 will find him at Charleston, South Carolina, where he will talk at the high schools and the City College. He will be in Savannah the next two days, from where he will go to Atlanta, speaking at a Harvard Club meeting there...
After two days in Baltimore, he will go to Washington and speak at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of that city, closing his trip on February 8 and 9 with attendance at the annual meeting of the Headmasters' Association at Briarcliffe, New York...