Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given over to discussion groups. Two of these, those dealing with "Social Service and the Social System" and with "The Problem of Racial Minorities," will be led by J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, and R. H. Hill 1T.S. respectively. On Saturday morning a speech by Dr. Gilkey will be followed by various forums. Saturday afternoon will be devoted to winter sports; and in the evening Dr. Gilkey will speak again. Morning watch service and an afternoon Communion service will conclude the scheduled events...
There will be separate trials, in the nature of five minute speeches, for each debate, all Freshmen being eligible for these trials. The trials for the first debate will probably be held on March 11. It was also announced by Assistant Professor F. C. Packard '20 that a prize of $50 will be awarded to the debater who delivers the best speech in the trials for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate...
...loyalty of us princes to the British Crown is no mere figure of speech!" declared the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, notorious some years ago as "Mr. A." (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), the victim of an English woman who blackmailed...
...went down one evening last week, Prime Minister Venizelos entered the Chamber of Deputies and began a fiery speech which lasted well into the night. He moved adoption of a bill entrusting to J. & W. Seligman & Co. of Manhattan the financing of a notable series of public works in the Salonika Valley. Pointedly defying Hambros, Venizelos cried...
...Board to lay before it such information as might be "helpful" in securing anti-speculative legislation. It was a mildly-worded resolution, perhaps because it was edited by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, one of the authors of the Federal Reserve Act (1913). Not mild, however, was the accompanying speech by ponderous Senator Heflin of Alabama. Wall Street, he bellowed, was the hotbed and breeding place of the worst form of gambling that ever cursed the country. The Louisiana State Lottery slew its hundreds but the New York State gambling exchanges were slaying hundreds of thousands. The gambling monster...