Word: speech
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...LAST STRAW."It is claimed that the [Harvard] Faculty became gradually more and more disgusted when they saw that the alumni of a great university like Yale could not have an annual gathering without devoting every speech to an athletic sport, to the absolute exclusion of all reference to their alma mater as an institution of learning. This feeling had become very strong when, at the meeting four weeks ago, an incident happened which was the last straw...
...PEABODY and W. L. VAN KLEECK.Best general references: D. A. Wells, Decay of our Merchant Marine; J. Codman, Free Ships; Report of Committee on Merchant Marine, House Report No. 966, 52nd Cong., 1st Session; Speech of Mr. Fithian, Cong. Record, 51st Cong., 2nd Session...
...interest of the audience remained undiminished to the end. The speaking was characterized by perhaps too little following out of a consecutive line of argument by speakers on the same side and by useless citation of individual instances and comparisons, together with a tendency towards the popular stump speech on the part of several of the debaters; but upon the whole the men spoke well and convincingly and the showing made does credit to all the participants...
...debate will be opened for the Harvard Union by H. A. Bull in a speech of eight minutes. He will be answered by F. D. Pollak of the Wendell Phillips Club. Ten minute speeches will then follow by J. P. Hall on the affirmative and W. S. Youngman on the negative, after which the five minute speakers will discuss special aspects of the question. The debate will then be closed by the opening speakers, who will be allowed seven minutes each for rebuttal and general conclusion...
...speech of Mr. Green which is printed in another column brings out one point which can not be too strongly insisted on. The rules of football can not be held to blame for the abuses which are the chief cause of outcry against the game today, and the final remedy for these abuses is accordingly not to be sought in any amendment of the rules. This does not mean that no such amendment should be attempted: far from it. Much may unquestionably be done by a strict enforcement of more severe rules, to prevent the recurrence of the most objectionable...