Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been a good deal of talk about the freedom of the Harvard undergraduate to shift for himself intellectually, unsupervised except for the minimum of requirements. Behind this talk there has been much action that is courageous and liberal. But the College must go the whole way. There can be no halt-way measures, but they will exist as long as there exists the school of instruction which works out its effect in the pressure of insistent minor requirements...
...veterans at the Chelsea Naval Hospital will be visited this evening by J. E. Barrett '30, W. R. Harper '30, and J. N. Trainer '31, who will talk to the veterans on athletic affairs at Harvard. Official motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale football game at the Yale Bowl last fall will be shown, and Captain-elect Barrett will explain the game in detail...
Besides the football announcements there will be several feature talks by outside speakers. Dave Eagan, sports writer and boxing critic of the Boston Globe will talk on boxing. J. L. Knox, coach of the Second University team is to explain the new rule changes as they will go into effect next season. Arthur Sampson, head football coach at Tufts and Stanley Woodward, sports writer for the Boston Herald are also to speak. The meeting is the second of its kind which has been held in preparation for the coming conditioning season...
Modern poetry will be taken out of the Harvard classroom and put into the bookshelf and the informal talk by the gift of $42,000 made to the President and Fellows of Harvard College by Morris Gray, '77. Three gifts, totaling that amount, were made, with the object that the income should be applied to the purchase of books of current modern poetry, and books upon the subject, and for talks by poets and critics...
...have Napoleon. No. That's his name. Can't talk English yet. I don't think his French's so good either. He sort of sings along and then he pops out Ow ould you zay tzrow eet eenzo low tzear. Yeah, just like that. Throw it into low gear, he meant. What do they get guys like that for? The class horses him all the time. You know Al? He's on pro, but he never comes to class, I just answer Here for him and Nap doesn't know the difference...