Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...durable settlement with Germany and the maintenance of Peace!'' interjected leading Rightist Deputy Paul Reynaud. "Despite the deplorable exhibition of herself that she sometimes makes, France is still strong enough to ... help keep the balance of power in Europe!'' Surprisingly, his was the only speech applauded last week by every Chamber group, from extreme Right to extreme Left...
...most touchy subject the speech undertook to judge was the matter of degrees, and in backing President Hutchins' two-year "Associate in Arts" degree, Mr. Lake let his animosity toward Harvard lead him into a contradiction. The only excuse for laboriously learning the classics is the thorough nature of the education it gives. Nothing is more contrary to Mr. Lake's desires than a speedy veneer of culture, followed by a purely vocational course. A two-year university degree comes close to being a contradiction of terms. President Lowell is reported as saying that "In sixty years the Lord...
After listening to President Conant give a rebroadcast of a part of his speech at Atlantic City, the Student Union last night adopted a resoution expressing disapproval of his policy fixing or curtailing enrollment in universities...
What dreadful intimations have been read into President Conant's Atlantic City address are not yet apparent, but the speech was of the same character as the documents mentioned above. The ideas it embodied were excellent, but the wording was deplorable. President Conant seems aware that this is a democracy, but oblivious of the limitations inherent in a democracy. Until that golden Tomorrow, when "basic education is truly universal," the President will have to use words of two syllables or bear the consequences, for publicity, build-up, ballyhoo, and general "talking down" are essential to putting a point across...
Peace machinery that leaps into motion on the threat of war and stays in motion until peace is again obtained is the ideal that Ricardo J. Alfaro, former president of Panama, declared is needed to settle Pan-American relations. He gave the speech yesterday evening in Emerson Hall...