Word: speech
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...held in the Assembly Room of the Union tomorrow evening, commencing at 7 o'clock. At these trials six or seven men will be retained to take part in the final contest in the New Lecture hall on Friday, December 17. Each man will make a five-minute speech in English upon the subject of the contest, "Resolved, That the French government should adopt an income tax in orders to distribute more equitably the burden of the taxation." The judges for the Preliminary trials will be J.S. Davis '08, A.N. Holcombe '07, P.B. Kennedy...
President Eliot's speech this evening will consider "The Conservation Movement." He will show that the problem of conservation is not only a state and national one, but also one for municipal consideration...
Under these conditions the team is not to be unduly criticised if it plays a waiting game and uses an unvaried attack. As Captain Fish said in his speech at the last mass meeting, it is the Yale and not the Dartmouth game that counts, and it is by its showing next Saturday that the team is to be judged. It is in Harvard's favor that practically all of the men on the first squad are now in good condition and that the past week has seen greatly increased speed and accuracy in the work of the team...
...Speakers' Club in this column yesterday we un-intentionally paid but slight attention to the reading which was the immediate subject of the editorial. We wish to express our appreciation of the delightful reading which Professor Trueblood gave on Wednesday evening. It was an example of highly perfected speech, and showed the power that such utterance, even in its simplest form, has over an audience. The refined art and the pleasing personality of the reader added attractiveness to a piece of good literature. We hope that other such occasions may be offered...
...meeting was opened by a short speech by R. C. Brown '10, who was followed by E. R. Lewis 3L., president of the University Debating Council, and by C. B. Randall...