Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...forty-seven men who spoke yesterday morning at the preliminary trial to select speakers for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution, the following eleven have been retained for the final trial on Thursday, May 14. They will speak in alphabetical order...
...Moody '76, Secretary of the Navy, spoke privately in the Training Table Roomof the Union last night, before the members of the law School Political Club, on "The Monroe Doctrine and the Navy in Connection with it and with the Philippine Problem...
...Yale chose to defend the negative. The University team was composed of F. B. Wagner 1L., I. Grossman 2L. and R. LuV. Lyman '03, who gave their opening speeches in the order named. In rebuttal the order was Lyman, Wagner and Grossman. For Yale R. H. Ewell '03 spoke first, A. Fox '03, second and C. D. Lockwood 3L., third. In the rebuttal the order was Fox, Lockwood and Ewell. The main speeches were twelve minutes in length and the rebuttal five. The judges were President Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Provost C. C. Harrison of the University...
...delivery the two teams were very evenly matched, although the advantage rested with the University speakers. Wagner spoke with fluency and finish, but too little action; Ewell, for Yale, was especially direct and convincing, but sometimes made a climax in delivery when there was none in thought; Fox was rather unnatural in his style of speaking; Lockwood made up in earnestness what he lacked in variety; Lyman spoke straight to his audience and was effective, though slightly lacking in breath; Grossman, combining ease with vigor and variety, was probably the best speaker of the evening...
...Senior team spoke in the following order: G. W. Hinckley, C. W. Gilkey and G. Bettman. The order of the Freshman speakers was as follows: W. M. Shohl, J. W. Plaisted and H. A. Hirshberg. The Freshmen won by presenting their arguments mere clearly and by supporting them with clearer quotations and statistics...