Word: speech
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Each man will be allowed twelve minutes for his main speech and five minutes for rebuttal. Of the six speakers, three will be chosen to make up the University team, and the remaining three, form whom an alternate will be chosen later, will form the second team. The undergraduate making the best showing in the series of trials will be awarded the Coolidge prize...
...Hurwitz '08. In the final trial, to be held in Upper Dane next Tuesday at 7 o'clock, Catlett, Elder and Sharfman will support the affirmative and the negative will be upheld by Hirsch, Hurwitz, and Russell. Each man will be allowed 12 minutes for a main speech and five minutes for a rebuttal. The undergraduate making the best showing in all the trials will be awarded the Coolidge prize...
...Connor laid great streets on this peculiar mixture of laxity and stern customs in Parliamentary procedure. While, for example, lounging, yawning, and sleeping during an opponent's speech is a common matter, leaving the chamber without bowing before the speaker's chair is unheard of. But many of the irrevocable customs, ridiculous as they may seem to one who does not understand their meaning, were, at the time of their institution, founded on necessary circumstances, and therefore worthy of respect. In the paraphernalia, customs, and associations of Westminster Abbey, historic past and actual present are strangely mingled...
...leaders, by F. C. Gould, the contemporary cartoonist. Many of these, like Gladstone, had long careers; while, on the other hand, such men as Randolph Churchill, destined in the light of his early progress to a great career, if not a Prime Ministership, were ruined through a single fatal speech or a sudden change of sentiment...
...notable speech President Eliot spoke of freedom as the condition necessary to the progress of society, and pointed out its dangers and its opportunities in college life. A striking phenomenon of our day, he said, is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life. It is especially manifest in our educational institutions, for there is no moment when a young man is in a position of more freedom than when he leaves home and enters College. He can use or abuse that freedom, he can use it for good or bad purposes. It is there...