Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach Gardiner gave the men a short blackboard talk commenting on the Worcester game, and describing some new formations which the squad later tried out on the field. A short practice at drop-kicking preceded a very thorough signal drill for both the first team and the substitutes. Work ended with a few minutes at catching and running down under punts, a department of the game which promises to receive considerable attention before the week...
...principles of government and economics were explained to the natives, and by the establishment of a Moro exchange where they might peacefully barter goods, Major Finley has "turned savages into citizens" with almost unprecedented results. His work is very highly spoken of by Major-General Leonard Wood, and his talk this evening should be particularly interesting. As usual, the Union will be open to members only...
...American Ornithological Union to be held in Cambridge throughout the week will take place in the University Museum at 10 and 2.30 o'clock today. Among the speakers in the morning will be Mr. A. C. Bent '89 and Dr. C. W. Townsend '81, both of whom will talk on the birds of Labrador. In the afternoon Mr. F. M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will speak on bird-life of Columbia and Herbert K. Job '88 will deliver an address on the propagation of American wild fowl. Several other well-known ornithologists will...
...between these two functions. of the Oxford Union does not seem to have struck your contributors and correspondents. I was for two years an active member of the Oxford Union, and in my last term served as a member of one of its committees; I therefore feel qualified to talk about its position in the university. The only reason that it is a social centre is that it is the University Debating Society; one great reason for its success as a debating society is the facilities it offers for social intercourse. A man who uses the Union merely...
Coach Haughton said that this year's football team was, and had shown itself, capable of winning tomorrow, newspaper talk to the contrary notwithstanding, and that the University had every right to feel confidence in the men. He was followed by Captain Wendell who emphasized the value of cheering and by J. W. Farley '99, who spoke of the spirit of football games, and their influence on University solidarity...