Word: speech
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Major Higginson concluded his speech by speaking of opportunities for service and the obligations all citizens have towards the country, especially in time of war when every one's duty is to learn to be of some good...
...working among citizens of foreign descent in Boston is looking for men who can spare about two hours a day at times suiting their convenience during the next two weeks to assist the machinery of the campaign among those citizens. The work will not consist of actual canvassing nor speech-making, but in directing and encouraging the efforts of the local committees. This will give men who are not in active military service and those who cannot buy bonds an opportunity to aid materially in this government movement...
...would be made against the Trustees in expelling Professors Dana and Cattell and causing Professor Beard's resignation. The meeting was addressed by former instructor Durant of the Philosophy Department who said in pant: "Professor Beard has offered his life and career as a sacrifice to the freedom of speech." Several students also spoke, one saying the meeting was not in the best interests of Columbia. A Freshman struck the true spirit of the occasion when he said that the students had met to protest against the action of the Trustees, and that the affair was purely an academic matter...
...short biographical sketch of the late Charles W. Harkness of New York City, in whose memory the quadrangle was given, and the formal speech of President Hadley in accepting the prospective group of buildings comprised the chief events of the program. The invocation was given by Dean Charles W. Brown of the Yale School of Religion and the corner-stone was laid by Edward H. Harkness of New York, brother of the former New York business man to whom the buildings are to be a memorial. He was assisted in the formal setting of the stone in place by James...
...Reverend Henry Van Dyke, D. D., recent Minister to the Netherlands, and Professor of English Literature at Princeton University delivered a forceful talk before an audience of law and graduate students in Phillips Brooks House last night. His subject was "The United States and the World War" and his speech consisted of an indictment of Germany and an absolute justification of the course taken by the United States...