Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brown '14 will give a talk on the work of the American Ambulance Corps at the front in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday evening, January 25, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Brown was for ten months the driver of one of the military ambulances put at the disposal of the French army by the American Hospital of Paris. The talk will be illustrated with pictures taken within the French and British lines...
...League of Student Volunteers will meet in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, and all members of the University interested in any phase of foreign mission work are urged to attend. Mr. Russell and Miss Hagard, secretaries of the Student Volunteer Movement, will talk on the value of foreign missions...
...Morton. Prince '75 will give a talk at the Harvard Club, Boston, this evening at 8.30 o'clock, on the moral effect of high explosives on the soldier as observed in this present war and the organization of the British Medical Service. Dr. Prince has but recently returned from abroad, where he has spent much of his time in the trenches and the hospitals of the English field service studying the effect of shell fire on the nervous systems of the men at the front...
...train as many men as possible to become, with additional work, good company officers. The more complicated work necessary for higher officers will not be treated. The instruction will be divided into theoretical and practical work. It is hoped that experts in the various arms of the service will talk on their branches and several have already been secured...
...will not do to sit back in smug complacency and say "my talk is all right," or "it's nobody's business." Collegiate life in general can bear improving. In a university, if anywhere, ideas should creep into the conversation. And the value of talking, when mind meets mind in frank communion and keen interplay, can be compared favorably to text-book study. The undergraduate could learn more of the satisfaction one feels when he can truly say, as Dr. Johnson said (and Stevenson quoted), "Sir, we had a good talk...