Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retained in the trials of the University debating team for the coming triangular debate with Yale and Princeton will start conference work this afternoon. Each man is to bring an outline of a ten minute speech to the meeting at New Lecture Hall at 3 o'clock...
After that was 1856-"Free Speech, Free Press, Free Soil, Free Men, Frémont and Victory." But, able slogan though it was, victory did not follow. The campaign was a bitter one. Frémont was the presidential nominee of the new and crusading Republican (Free Soil) party, supported by the leading newspapers and liberals of the North. Conservative northerners feared to have so impetuous a man in the White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil...
...will eat together every day to discuss the question. All men in the College and Engineering School in good standing are eligible. Those intending to try out for the team should report this evening in the New Lecture Hall at 7 o'clock prepared to give a five minute speech on either side of the question...
...without a doubt, changed 'Wincot' to the name of whatever town he was playing in, and made 'Marian Hocket' some local character. Thus he heightened the farcical element, and this can be best conveyed to an American audience by making it typically American, by modernizing the costumes and the speech...
Besides the guest of honor, the undergraduate vice-president of the Union will speak, as well as one or more faculty members. A speech is usually made by the president of the University and by some well-known outside speaker. Judge F. P. Cabot '90, president of the Union, will be the presiding officer...