Word: speech
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...third and last speech, by President Lowell, dealt with his elemental, his fearless simplicity. "He was one of the men who was ready to stand up and think his own thoughts, trust his own thoughts and act upon his own thoughts. And he was ready to do what he thought without regard for the fact that somebody would criticise it tomorrow, knowing that it would justify itself the day after...
...goods. In the vacation period the students went out through the country urging the manufacture of those goods in China. Their suggestions found great support, and they made a number of new demands. The government granted nearly all of the demands, including the demand for a guarantee of free speech...
...Union are invited to attend the meeting to be held tonight in honor of Col. Theodore Roosevelt '80, at which William Roscoe Thayer '81 will speak. The meeting will be held in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock, and will open with a short introductory speech by Dean C. N. Greenough '98. Mr. Thayer will then make an address on "Some Interesting Incidents in Col. Roosevelt's Career." After this there will be a two-real motion picture entitled "Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt's Friends...
Such sincerity and temperance of thought and speech in a labor leader as Mr. Plumb displayed in his masterly argument here cannot be safely or successfully met in these times by the utter repudiation of it as a "stump speech." It is not in any spirit of prejudice which characterizes all such arguments by epithet that the problem will be settled. The hope of the country lies in holding up the hands of the labor conservatives, not necessarily by servile acquiescence in their views, but at least by a patient and sympathetic co-operation through which alone a satisfactory compromise...
...Plumb's exposition in Phillips Brooks House yesterday of his railroad plan met with deserved approval. We congratulate Mr. Plumb upon the success of an excellent stump speech. Aside from a few well-worn jibes at "Wall Street journals" and "Capitalists," his explanation was moderate and in very good taste. But Mr. Plumb's project, stripped of his personality, remains as impracticable as ever...