Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first general meeting to be held by the Society will be a reception for first year men in particular at the Phillips Brooks House on Monday, September 27. At this reception President Lowell will make the speech of welcome to the entering Law School men. Dean Roscoe Pound, Professor Frankfurter, and Professor Maynadier will also make short speeches dealing largely with the nature of Law School work, contrasting it with that at college. Brief talks on the various fields of activity which may be taken up in the School outside the regular curriculum will be made by the President...
President Hibben is one of a distinguished line of Phi Beta Kappa orators which is headed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose speech on the occasion of his appearance at the Phi Beta Kappa exercises has been regarded as among his most famous utterances...
...weeks ago Mrs. Kahn of California, one of the two widows* in Congress, made her maiden speech, (TIME, May 10). Last week, perhaps spurred on by Mrs. Kahn's reception, perhaps en-heartened because Mrs. Kahn had broken ground, the other Congressional widow, Mrs. John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts, who last year was elected to the seat vacated by the death of her husband, made her Congressional debut...
...Adams, supported by Postmaster General New and others who have no reason for liking Watson. Adams made a whirlwind campaign, excoriating Watson's "sterile statesmanship" and "30 years of deals, deals, deals." Watson leaned back secure in the possession of an effective political machine, and made only one speech in the entire campaign. He was renominated by a majority of some...
...Science Has a Rendez-vous"; an lowan primed to deliver "Cat and Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier "Red" Robinson (his home is in Anderson, Ind.), who, when he found Illinois humming with talk about that week's triple murder, scrapped his prepared speech and got up another one overnight called "The Eleventh Commandment." The seven judges were his to all but one man when he declaimed, among other ringing sentences: "Do you blame our youth for turning to a criminal career when, in those formative years before character is made or habits fixed...