Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Stiff opposition is expected by the University debating authorities from both the other universities, especially in the Princeton contest, in which the University is represented by only one man who has spoken before in an intercollegiate debate, while all three of the opposing debaters have been in at least two other such contests. Not much is known of the Yale team which meets the University at Cambridge except that the third speaker, L. S. Hitchcock, was a member last year's championship team. Up to date, the University has a score of 33 debating victories to 23 for Princeton...
...frame of mind where we should feel that we need never again prepare ourselves for self-defense. It may not be in fashion now to speak of Washington or his Farewell Address, and it is true that we have gone far since his words of warning were first spoken, but. Washington said one the thing which will be eternally true so long as nations shall exist: "There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard...
...students, and consequently from any advantageous opportunity to change his reading knowledge of English into the necessary speaking and hearing knowledge. Thus the chief obstacle between the interesting in body of foreign students and the American students, who really feel very friendly toward them, is simply this ignorance of spoken English on the part of foreigners and this lack of continuous helpful association between...
...Demetrius Kalopothakes '88, of the American Legation at Athens and friend of Premier Venizelos of Greece, will lecture on "Greece in the Peace Conference" in the Fogg Art Museum next Thursday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock: Dr. Kalopothakes has spoken recently at several colleges in the country, including Yale and Cornell, and his lecture is one of a series given for the purpose of informing the American people about national aspirations and the present situation in Greece. It will be open to the public as well as to the members of the University...
...Labor Mission has spoken with authority, and, according to all accounts, its message has been received approvingly and hopefully by most of the workingmen of Great Britain and France, who, like our own, see no prospect of justice or progress in autocratic militarism or in intolerable anarchy. --New York World...