Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love and respect of his teachers and all who knew him best. His unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy was recognized by the faculty and students as nothing short of remarkable. . . . Willis advanced by leaps and bounds in college; and while yet in knee pants, so to speak, became a teacher and professor of law. His neighbors sent him to the legislature of his own state, then later to the lower house of Congress and so proud of his career were the people, that they put him in the seat occupied by the beloved William McKinley as Governor...
Said eager Edward Voight: "I will let my record speak for itself and will not make a fight . . . unless forced...
...Cheek '26, former Crimson football captain, will speak in support of the question: "Resolved, That this house favors the enlargement of the Stadium to a seating capacity of 80,000 people" in the debate on Tuesday evening, March 20, under the auspices of the Debating Union, it was announced last night. A. R. Sweezy '29 is the only other speaker who has been definitely chosen, but several other tentative selections have been made. It is expected that many members of the 1927 football team, including Captain-elect A. E. French '29, will be present, and one of them will speak...
...ayes" placing themselves on the right hand of the chairman, L. T. Grimm '29, who will preside in the speaker's chair. Cheek, representing the affirmative, will open the debate by putting the motion before the house. As mover of the motion, he also has the privilege of speaking last. After he has concluded, representatives of either side speak alternately, having been first recognized by the chair...
...pulpit, which always finds it hard to condone the decadence of contemporaneous life, has now collected its adherents to pray for virtuous guidance in the April primary at Chicago. It has become traditional to speak of the seat of America's most recent demagogue as the haunt of light fingered but heavy handed artists, notables for whom the open spaces of Cook country breed only potential victims or competitors; but, in the opinion of the clergy, conditions have reached a parlous state since the last elections, and it is scarcely safer there for a private citizen than it would...