Word: speech
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pinney, 1917, delivered the best speech for the Yale team...
...members of the University of today, some of whom, perhaps, have never seen his face or heard his matchless oratory of perfect speech, join with the multitude of Harvard men everywhere in wishing him health and happiness on his eighty third birthday...
...must admit that we are prone to joke about the so-called "affectation" of the New Englander's speech, but I believe our remarks are made only in fun, and Mr. Norton does not mean to criticize. We realize that our speech is somewhat flat and our voices possibly raucous at times, and we hope that your possible irritation will give way to your good sense so that you may retaliate with a little good natured...
...Massachusetts President Eliot set forth his opinions on the elective system in schools as well as colleges, the value of physical instruction and the teaching of hygiene in the secondary schools, and various other questions of current interest to the educators of the country. The occasion of the speech was a dinner given in the Trophy Room of the Union at the close of the opening day of the first Conference of High School Principals of Massachusetts...
...rulers makes itself felt, and in the present instance I hope and believe that it is going to make itself felt in favor of war." Is this the sort of "political doctrine" which Columbia is about to "investigate," or does it confine its investigations purely to anti-war speeches? A short while ago Count Tolstoi, the son of the world famous author, was prevented by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia from delivering a speech in the precincts of that university which the censor at Moscow had seen fit to pass as harmless, even for Russia! Is that doctrine...