Word: speech
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Daniels and L. C. Hull of Lawrenceville. Clio's representatives were J. B. Cochran '96, G. H. Waters '96 and R. O. Kirkwood '97. Whig Hall sent E. W. Hamilton '96, R. B. Perry '96 and R. F. Sterling '97. Each speaker was allowed twelve minutes for his first speech, and six minutes for rebuttal. The debate was attended by a large number of the undergraduates, and the speakers were cheered lu tily...
Best general references: J. Codman, Free Ships; J. D. K. Kelley, Question of Ships; Edward Kemble in North American Review, Vol. 160, 85 (Jan. '95); J. C. Hall in Overland Monthly, 2nd ser. XII: 640 (Dec. '88); U. S. Statutes at Large, XXVI. 830, XXVII. 27; Speech of Mr. Fithian, in Cong. Record, 51 Cong., 2 Sess...
...MacKenzie then addressed the meeting. He delivered a speech of witty and interesting reminiscences of his former membership and then, passing to more serious matters, spoke of the terrible mistake that a college man makes in letting religion lie in abeyance during his four years in college...
When we look at the French language in the eleventh century, the first thing that strikes us is the absence of any standard form of speech, either for literary work or for pronunciation. The dialects that were spread over France at this time were so many separate developments of vulger Latin. Among them was one, that of Paris, that was destined to become the standard of literary French. The differences between Norman French and this ancestor of modern French are so few and unimportant that they can be ignored. Thus, when we consider the language of Normandy at this time...
...apparent diphthongs in modern French, ai, ei, eu, ou and au, were pronounced separately in old Frence. Exception must be made in this case to au, for it does not appear in old writings, although it may have existed in speech. The sound oi, which seems so eminently English, is in reality of old French origin...