Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates should prepare a five minute speech in French on subject of lating to France. The finals will take place toward...
Besides Mr. Moors' speech there will be short addresses by M. A. Cheek '26, President of the Phillips Brooks House Association, and C. G. T. Lundell '27, President-elect. The reports of the secretaries will also be read at the dinner. In addition to the speeches, music will be furnished by the University double quartet...
...Moors has chosen as the subject of his speech "The Opportunities for Public Service Offered Today." Mr. Moors has been known to Harvard men for a number of years for the part he has played in the official affairs of the University. In 1915 the degree of L.L.D. was conferred on him by the University, and in 1918 he was elected a Fellow of Harvard College, which position he has since held...
...Dickson '27 in the next speech made the most convincirg point of the evening for the negative when he showed that the Renaissance had come about largely through the work of the universities which erabled the world to rediscover the classic culture. "Education preserves the cultural continuity of the race," he said in conclusion...
Basil Davenport, the final speaker for the affirmative delivered the most brilliant speech of the evening, and won the audience over to the Yale position. He began by complaining that education dried up one's sense of humor. He also asked how education could recompease us for the diseases and evils which it brings on us and then is itself necessary to cure them. Going off on a different line. Davenport represented himself as a Spartan coming to Athens, which was represented by Harvard, to show the people there that their ideal of education was not the one on which...