Word: speech
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...also the head coach trainer and manager will be presented with watch charms in the form of miniature gold baseballs by the Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates at the regular Tuesday evening entertainment in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. The presentation speech will be made by Mr. L. A. Frothingham '93, captain of the baseball team in 1893 and head coach in 1899. An informal concert will be given by members of former University glee clubs. The following men will receive gold baseballs: B. Wendell, Jr., '02, W. Clarkson '03, A. Stillman...
Dante's first great mission he said was the introduction of the common speech of the people into literature. Up to his time all European literature, with insignificant exceptions, was in Latin. But Dante chose the common tongue of Italy as the language of his sublime poems, and by that act the speech of the Italy speech was glorified forever. As the father of modern literature, then, Dante may rightfully be called the leader of the long line of writers who furnish the surest revelation of the races which have achieved the progress of the world during the last five...
...George Riddle '74 will speak in Sanders Theatre on Friday evening, February 20, under the auspices of the University Debating Club, on "The Decadence of English Speech." Mr. Riddle was instructor in elocution at the University from 1878-1881. He is one of the best known public readers in the country and has given Shakespearean and other readings in all the principal cities of the United States; he is the author of "A Modern Reader and Speaker." The lecture will be open to the public...
...dinner given the members of the Association at Sherry's on Tuesday night by the Alumni Council of Columbia. President Eliot made a short impromptu speech on the "strenuous life." On Wednesday, December 31, President Parkin of Lower Canada College, a representative of the trustees of the Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund, explained to the association the purposes and scope of the fund...
...debate was closed by the rebuttal speech of Blair, who maintained that by the reading of the question a state of anarchy is assumed. In that case the other arm of the government, the national, must of necessity be employed to establish peace. For all lawlessness which breaks out there should exist a power to put it down; when State control is inadequate the only resource in to power vested in the President