Word: talking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the rest given the team on Monday, practically the whole football squad reported for practice yesterday afternoon. The practice was preceded by the usual talk in the Locker Building and then the teams spent some time at kicking the ball and in running through signals...
...closing the debate for the Democrats, H. Epstein 1L stated that "Roosevelt and Taft did not remedy the state of affairs because they were afraid, but left it for Wilson to do, hoping that they might thereby secure good campaign talk...
...interesting program of talks and concerts has been arranged by the Harvard Club of Boston for the next two months. On Wednesday, November 8, at 8.30 o'clock, Dr. George Draper '03, chief diagnostician of the Long Island branch of the State Board of Health of New York, will give an illustrated talk on infantile paralysis...
...local branch of the National Hughes College League will hold the first of a series of meetings at the Cambridge Boat Club tomorrow at 8 o'clock, H. B. MacDowell '78 will talk on "Speaking in the Streets and Democratic Campaign Methods." Other speakers will be William Roscoe Thayer '81, Richard Henry Dana '74, Joseph M. Thorpe and Professor William Morse Cole '90. Members of the Republican Club who intend to make campaign speeches in the interest of the coming election are especially invited, as the Hughes League believes that greater success can be obtained if such speakers are backed...
...long arm." This reflection may invite more appreciation in England, where tradition and time-honored custom have established a political and social inertia reasonably impervious to radical pressure, than in America, whose institutions are not similarly encrusted. However, herein lies a possible indication of our own proneness to talk and act nonsensically. College men especially are wont to search out the humorous elements in a serious situation, and their enjoyment in raillery is noticeably persistent. Harsh critics condemn this apparent distaste for fundamentals, and disparage the merits of an unregulated disregard of inward responsibility. If this sort of liberty...