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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preliminary trials the first week after the spring vacation, the time and place to be announced later. The students will speak, not their own compositions, but selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors; the proportion in English is to be at least two out of three. Nothing spoken at the final contest in 1912 or 1913 will be accepted. The list of speeches in those two years which are now banned may be had by applying to Dean Briggs...
...Breckinridge, who has a reputation as one of the most gifted orators among the suffragists, is a grand-daughter of Henry Clay. She was elected to the vice-presidency of the National Suffrage Association quite recently, and soon became one of its most active and influential leaders. She has spoken for her cause all over the country and is very prominent in social reform measures in her native state, Kentucky, having for many years held the presidency of the Civic League of Lexington, a non-partisan association of men and women which interests itself in reform legislation. While in this...
...Senator Hollis has not spoken in a way calculated to make us accept even his good ideas as such. We seldom give much credence to a man who inveighs against any institution with a radicalism so unbalanced by a Knowledge of the facts. The sensational type of the article on colleges has often enough been commented on in this column and elsewhere. That a graduate of the college such as senator Hollis should take so little Pains in investigating or considering the truth of many of the popular illusions in regard to it, before placing it in so unfavorable...
...which Professor Charles H. Grandgent was elected, and the election of Mr. Rudolph Altrocchi, 4G, as president of the organization, brings the Cercle Francais under the personal influence of the French Department. It is the intention of the Cercle to hold frequent meetings at which French will be spoken, and distinguished French visitors will address the club. Occasional debates and discussion will be conducted in French, under the direction of Mr. L. J. A. Mercier and the annual play will be given as usual. It was also decided that former councillors, still connected with the University, should be ex-officio...
There seems to have been some misunderstanding about my attitude towards the proposed gymnasium. To the students who came to see me on Monday, I said the same thing that I have always said to every advocate of the plan who has spoken to me,--that the University would be very glad to have a new gymnasium whenever it is given, although I do not see where the large sums needed are to be found. Very truly yours, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...