Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Divinity School, will speak on "Christian Teachings and Social Applications," in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock. This is the last of the series of five conferences on religion and social problems. Professor G. F. Moore, Professor Carver, and Dean Fenn have all spoken at the previous meetings. The lecture is open to members of the Law and Graduate Schools...
...entertainments given by the Union have included a number of lectures and talks by prominent men, many of whom have spoken in past years. The series of lectures on professions has been continued. President H. A. Garfield, of Williams College, spoke on "Education"; W. B. Parsons spoke on "Engineering"; Dr. R. C. Cabot '89 on "Medicine"; Rev. Endicott Peabody h.'04 on "The Ministry"; and W. M. E. Perkins '07 on "Journalism." Among the other men of national reputation who drew large audiences were Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton, F. Hopkinson Smith, Hon. E. Sumner Mansfield, Hon. Henry Clews, and Horace...
Herbert Brutus Ehrmann '12, who comes from Louisville Male High School, where he took part in several speaking contests. He has never spoken on a college team previously, but was on a college team previously, but was awarded honorable mention for the Pasteur medal last December...
...better stated in books of reference. Often his notes contain serious errors, due to haste or confusion of mind; more often still they omit the most important facts. There can be no doubt that facts can be learned far more thoroughly and accurately from printed than from spoken words. Criticism, comment, and explanation can, on the other hand be admirably conveyed in lectures, provided the hearer is already acquainted with the facts upon which the comment is based. In an elementary course, for instance, the lecturer rarely sets forth facts not easily obtainable in books; his explanation of these facts...