Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among professorial indictments of the modern college student that of Dr. J. Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, is not the least severe. In a speech before the Radcliffe chapter o Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Park declared that crowds whose search for knowledge is merely subordinate to a desire for pleasure, are debauching American institutions of learning. "Comparatively few students are at our American universities for the purpose of scholarship," Le says. And, he adds, efforts to instill a love of learning in, barren minds, are as casting pearls before swine...
Last night Professor Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College faced an excited and sceptical crowd of Debating Union members, swept them off their feet by his speech, and won them over to his side by sheer power of oratory and convincing argument. The final vote of the audience was 81 to 25 in his favor, with 29 not voting...
...Versailles Treaty in respect to the war guilt of the Central Powers" was the question before the house in the Living Room of the Union. Speaking in defense of this motion, Professor Barnes presented an unanswerable case, and so carried his audience along that at the close of his speech C. P. Wright 1G rose and moved that there be no vote on the question. This motion was seconded, but defeated by 75 to 50, and the subsequent poll supported Professor Barnes...
...United States has a constitutional provision guaranteeing to its citizens the right of free speech. It is supposed to be one of the most sacred heritages of the English speaking races. It is nevertheless true that since 1917 so many limitations have been placed on this right that it is in imminent danger of ceasing to be a right and be coming a rare privilege...
...voted the Oxford Union, debating society, last week, 223 to 198. While Phi Beta Kappa men were packing their bags to go to William & Mary where, this week, they celebrate the 150th anniversary of their founding; while majestic little Dr. Henry van Dyke was writing, in Princeton, the speech which he will deliver to his brother Phi Betas, an interesting item appeared in the press. Half of Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa men this year are Jews-five of the eight juniors elected, and a large portion of the 22 seniors. Despite the snobbish evidences of class prejudice which...