Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate is a sensitive creature; he vigorously resents aspersions upon his conversation or intellectual interests. In outraged innocence he arose to condemn some recent strictures upon his table-talk. Nay, more; the Alumni Bulletin took up the gauntlet for him, and although admitting with genial indecision that there might be some ground for the charges, stated that it could not believe that "conversation had sunk, throughout an entire dining hall, to such depths as those into which the CRIMSON peers with despair...
Perhaps the argument was too locally applied. A correspondent of the Nation wishes to extend the conclusion "to cover the question what American men in general talk about." This writer complains that at gatherings of college men he is entertained only with "lectures by Walter This or Big Bill That" on football, and is told that that is the only interest college men have in common. A business man avers that among undergraduates "the range of subjects usually is from athletics to girls, and if one of them should happen to talk on American or English politics the other would...
...joint conference and dinner at Grundmann's Studios, 198 Clarendon street, Boston, Wednesday evening, at 6.15 o'clock. The subject for discussion will be: "Shall We Prepare?" Several prominent speakers will open the debate, after which the floor will be open to general discussion. Those who are scheduled to talk are as follows: Dr. E. H. Gruening '07, Managing Editor of the Boston Traveller; Miss Emily Balch, Professor of Economics at Wellesley College; G. W. Harris, Professor of Chemistry at Simmons College; W. H. Crook, 2G., M.A. Oxford. Dr. H. W. Laidler, Secretary of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, will preside...
Candidates for the Freshman hockey team will meet in the Smith Halls Common-room Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock instead of tonight as announced in Saturday's CRIMSON. J. E. P. Morgan '17, captain of the University seven, will talk and P. H. Smart '14, who will take charge of the squad during the season, will outline briefly the work for the winter. Practice will probably start by the last of the week...
...young man who cares to look into the matter will be very welcome at any of the State Armories and if he will ask for an officer and talk the matter over with him. I believe he will at once become interested. Officers can be found at all the armories on almost any evening...