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...been set as the date for the final trials for the Lee Wade II Prize in Public Speaking. Each of the contestants will recite a portion of Wendell Phillips' speech on "Labor...
Senator Lodge is condemned for making a patriotic appeal at the end of his speech. A patriotic appeal it certainly was; Lodge told us plainly that it was time we gave our thoughts and our efforts to our own country. England is doing it, Italy is doing it, France is doing it. And right here may be found the essential difference between the contentions of President Lowell and Senator Lodge. The President argued that the most fundamentally important business before us is to see that some covenant that has international welfare as its aim be established. The Senator contends that...
...other colleges, which were much more representative than the S. A. T. C. of college military training as it is in peace time, and which by concensus of opinion were highly successful. He waxes most enthusiastic in his denunciation apparently of all college training systems in general. In a speech to members of the Madison Civics Club he stressed the fact that "not even the hateful Prussian military system was ever extended to curtail the freedom enjoyed in the German universities." In their circular letter the Union Against Militarism adds this even more oratorical climax: "It is to be hoped...
Shades of William Jennings Bryan! The "cross of gold" speech hardly exceeds these words in eloquence. Yet we fear that in spite of all this flowery criticism the Union Against Militarism will gain few members here. Dean Goodnight may wave his arms in angry denunciation or bow before us with platitudinous pleadings, yet the plans for the furtherance of military training at Harvard will continue to receive their present well-deserved support...
Professor C. T. Copeland will give a brief address on "Harvard Men in the War", at the Harvard Club of New York City, at 9.30 o'clock on Friday evening, April 11. He will follow his speech with his annual reading, in which the subjects will be poems relating to the war, and letters from men in active service. Since 1906 Professor Copeland has visited the New York Club once a year...