Word: speech
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Norman Conquest. This foreign tongue brought with it many alterations to the native tongue. Just so the Latin language was brought into the territory we now call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right we may call modern French Latin. We may do this with even better right in the latter case, for French has not suffered so much from outside changes as English...
...character of these fables involves the attribution of mind and speech to dumb animals. In India, the earliest home of these fables, this was easy on account of the belief in the transmigration of souls...
...prominent graduate of Harvard, once a student at the University of Cambridge, in a brilliant speech delivered recently before a considerable number of Harvard men, took it upon himself to compare the state of athletics as he found them at the English University-where, it seems, there were once fifty-four college crews in training at one time,- with that of the large American universities, where, as he said, the athletic interests were committed entirely to the members of the teams, while the rest of the students sat on sofas, smoking cigarettes and betting on the results. Such a statement...
...marked by the formation of the Student Volunteer Committee, is a sign of a new era in university life. In the first place the committee was formed by a conference of all the religious societies here, both Catholic and Protestant,- an unparalleled event, as President Eliot remarked in his speech at the time. But the committee stands for something more than a merging of sectarian interests in a common desire for usefulness. It marks more plainly than ever the fact that selfisness as the characteristic sin of the scholar is a thing of the past. The idea of a university...
There was an important meeting of the religious societies of the University held last evening in the Fogg Art Museum. President Eliot presided and opened the meeting with a short speech. He said in part...