Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing is studied for its own sake, but as it will be useful in making a practical man: thus rhetoric is cultivated, as each may be called upon to speak in the course of his life. ...Mathematics and sciences are pursued because they correspond to the utilitarian character of the country. ...The studies are as languid as in England, and the discipline as loose as in Germany...
Senator Caraway to Speak...
...Harvard Democratic Club's own convention will take place on May 15 and May 16. Next Monday, Senator T. H. Caraway of Arkansas is scheduled to speak at the Union, and at this meeting signs with the names of the States of the Union will be placed in different part of the Living Room. Students attending the Caraway meeting will be seated by States and the temporary State chairmen will begin active organizations of their delegations for the mock convention. The speech of Senator Walsh of Montana won him many new supporters among the Harvard Democrats, and before...
...impassioned gesture swings through unseeing space. The purple period fades in color; the flashing eye meets no answering glance. . . . We sit in our library, in a room where we are accustomed to study and reflect, where all the surroundings are natural. When we there hear the same man speak we know him better than we could in the crowd. The very tones of his voice, quiet and deliberate, if he is to be heard by radio, proclaim his sincerity or his lack...
Clearly it was high time for Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, to speak out. Addressing the Diocesan Board of Rome, he prefaced his remarks thus: "Sad, beloved Sons, are the things we come to tell...