Word: talking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEUTSCHER VEREIN.- Last meeting of the year Thursday, May 24. Dr. Ernst von Halle will give a talk on "Ernstes und Heiteres aus dem Deutscher Studenten leben." Members of '94 especially requested to be present. Members may bring their friends...
...constitutional government like ours, nothing can be done but by talk. The word "talk" is not here used in the hypercritical, scornful way which is so common. Talk has, in its present use, a broad meaning. It means thought, preparation, determination, sagacity, knowledge of men and of affairs, the adaptation of means to an end. With these behind it, speech is as worthy of our respect as is the most effective means of action provided by our constitution...
...Connecticut and Rhode Island will hold a convention here tomorrow to form a department league and arrange for work this fall. Williams, Brown, Amherst, Tufts, Technology, Boston University and other colleges will be represented by delegates. There will be a business meeting at 2 p. m., and a "smoke talk" in the evening in the rooms of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, corner of Palmer and Brattle streets. In the afternoon there will be addresses by Arthur P. Stone, president of the Harvard Republican club, Theodore Cox of New York, president of the American Republican College League, and others...
...Parker gave a very interesting talk before the Religious Union in Holden Chapel last night on the Stoic poet, Cleanthes. Cleanthes was by profession an athlete or boxer who lived in Athens in the time of Euclid and Archimedes. He was not by profession a poet, but when he came to Athens he soon saw that there was something better to live for than boxing. So he put himself under the instruction of Zeno, a Stoic philosopher. But since he was a poor man he was obliged to work nearly all night to support himself. He was summoned before...
...larger groups, but are mere signs as much as O. K. and C. O. D. That a Latin sentence was really an instrument of thought and expression, saying something directly as it went along, hardly enters their heads. And even a play, in which people have real emotions, talk, make bargains and swear, gives, when merely read, very little suggestion of actual thought. Few people have the dramatic imagination sufficiently to project the words into real life. But, when a character is impersonated on the stage, the words get a reality from the embodiment that...