Word: speech
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Rush Rhees of Rochester University in his speech before the International Polity Federation last night said that civilization had not collapsed in the ordinary meaning of the word. Scientifically, politically, and intellectually the countries of Europe engaged in war have actually advanced. The real collapse of civilization has been moral and social. Intense race hatred and national misunderstanding have been cause and effect in bringing about the greatest war in history...
Each speaker will be allowed 12 minutes for his main speech and 5 minutes for rebuttal, with warnings at the end of 10 minutes for speeches and 4 minutes for rebuttal. Governor David I. Walsh will preside, and the judges who will render the decision are: Marion LeRoy Burton, President of Smith College; G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark University; Homer Albers, Dean of Boston University Law School...
...treasurer of Yale University contributes part of a speech on the relations that should exist between Harvard and Yale, which is a Wilsonlike appeal for peaceful relations and for a disregard of the chip-on-the-shoulder attitude assumed by the less civilized collegians...
...opinion of the judges some other form of award should seem more fitting, the sum may be differently apportioned, according to the comparative merits of the speakers. By the terms of the gift, all the contestants will be required to speak the same selected speech or piece of literature...
...Boston with a silver cup, engraved "From Yale '89 to Harvard '89," and he certainly took the Harvard men by surprise. They couldn't get over the fact that he had come all the way from New Haven, and with such a token; and when he finished his speech of presentation they finished his speech of presentation they fairly outdid themselves in ovations to old Yale. They even tried to sing the Yale songs, with what success I am not informed. But every man of that class carried away a new opinion of what Yale is like...