Word: speech
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last meeting of the Esperanto Society for this year was held in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon. Owing to the small number of competitors, it was decided not to award the Ostwald prizes for an essay and a speech in Esperanto until next fall, and the time for closing the competition was extended to that time...
...should be supported." The Freshman team, consisting of E. T. Went-worth, A. C. Lurie, and G. C. Good, will support the affirmative. M. L. Friedman, J. J. Hiatt, and H. C. Long will defend the negative for Exeter. Each man will be allowed twelve minutes for a main speech and five minutes for rebuttal...
...prizes, each to consist of an Esperanto dictionary and Esperanto literature to the value of $5, will be given for the best essay and speech in Esperanto. Essays must be at least 750 words long and may be either an original composition or a translation from some standard work. They must be handed in to A. B. Kuttner '08, Weld 13, the secretary of the club, on or before 5 o'clock on Saturday...
...other." He was the impersonation of health, vigor, and purity, moral as well as physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen susceptibilities and sympathies; gifted, furthermore, with a remarkable creative power in English expression, especially in extempore speech, pungent, vivid, finding always--if sometimes he had to make it--the fit word; impetuous, generous, the soul of honor, scornful of meanness and falsehood, swift in thought and manner, too swift at times for sluggish wits...
...interested in mining enterprises in the South and West; he wrote books and magazine articles on many subjects; he was a practical, influential, honest politician. His originality showed in his frequent use of words rarely heard from the mouths of others, yet well fitted in his effective and picturesque speech; and in his peculiar handwriting which almost constituted a new alphabet, yet which was consisitently a law unto itself and as legible as other current script when its letters were once learned; and in his vivid perception of the rich variety of the world about him, in which like...