Word: talking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening Mr. C. T. Copeland gave a practical, entertaining talk to a large audience on the uses of good reading and speaking...
...talk was followed by reading from Homer, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and from George Du Maurier's "Trilby...
...year the announcement in the Calendar of Mr. Copeland's lecture needs no commentary. But to the new-comers we wish to speak a word concerning these meetings. Aside from the pleasure to be derived from hearing interesting prose and verse read well, the subject of this first talk is really one quite worth attention. If a man makes no effort to acquire the ability to read and to speak well before he leaves college, the chances are that he never will. The fact that Mr. Copeland and Mr. Hayes are prepared to furnish voluntary instruction to those who desire...
...year last evening. Mayor Bancroft had been invited to address the members of the society. He spoke of the value of debating clubs at Harvard as part of a man's education here. He said that there was a great lack of public speakers who were able to talk clearly and interestingly, and he urged upon the students to take advantage of the opportunities for practice in debating offered by the Harvard clubs...
...personally - not as teacher and student, but as man and man. The preachers did not belong to the disciplinary part of the University, he said. They did not appoint certain hours for meeting the students in order to discuss the duties of the ministry with them; but rather to talk to them as one man to another; to give them the benefit of their greater experience in helping them out of any difficulty or temptation which they had met in their life at college. He ended by urging the students to take advantage of this opportunity for receiving counsel...