Word: speech
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once-more Senator LaFollette comes to the fore, this time in a speech in which he attempts to explain his position on the question of the war. Certainly, in the minds of most Americans, his position needs a lot of explaining. Since the declaration of war last April he has consistently opposed every act and bill in Congress which would have assisted the country to wage this war. The fact that he has been able, in advance, to take the opposite side on every question and proposal brought before Congress shows that he is the proud possessor of a mind...
...first meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club this year was held in the parlor of the Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening. F. Bela, 1 Med., the president of the club opened his speech by welcoming "everyone who can set aside nationality and take up humanity." "We know the word enemy," he said, "only to deny its significance for ourselves." The main point of his talk was to tell the members of the club that the friendships they made here would be shared by their peoples in future years...
...orals are regarded as a nuisance by most men. They should not be regarded as a nuisance. There are times when nothing will replace speech, spoken with the tongue. The education of no gentleman is finished without his acquiring the ability to tell a German what he is, in a language he may understand...
Tonight the Freshman class meets together for the first time in its history, the beginning of innumerable reunions as long as the lives of the members of the class shall last. There will be speech-making, which may be borne, and refreshments, which are pleasant though transient, and acquaintanship to mark the beginning of friendship...
...pass-words of democracy are easily passed, and apt to lose their meaning in the passage. Free speech is one of the bulwarks upon which our individual freedom rests. Yet free speech does not imply immoral speech, not speech with the obvious and declared desire of formenting revolution. The men and women in question, most of them born on a foreign soil, and received generously into our nation with the free rights of citizens, have used our hospitality to strike at the foundations of our laws. There may be a few to weep their martyrdom. But they will be very...