Word: talks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...William Pitts or Lord John Russells. An exception to this rule, however, is our Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, who will speak on the Navy in the New Lecture Hall at five o'clock this afternoon. He is a young man and knows how to talk to younger men. He is one of the progressive influences in our navy and knows how to explain his subject. What is more remarkable is that he has something remarkable to tell. With the war on, the navy demands our interest, whether or not it has been directed that...
...United States Navy" will be the subject of the war lecture to be given by Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Mr. Roosevelt's talk will include a description of the organization of the Navy Department and an explanation of the part played by navies in modern warfare. He will also comment upon the different kinds of naval craft and show the particular field covered by each...
...Secretary of the Navy, will give the next of the series of war lectures planned by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Monday of next week at 5 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. "The United States Navy" is to be the subject of Mr. Roosevelt's talk, and he will discuss the organization of his department and the role that naval warfare has played in the world struggle for democracy. The preceding lectures of the series have been held on Wednesday evenings, and the present departure from the usual day and hour has been add to accommodate...
...series of lectures on the war was instituted at the beginning of the year by a committee composed of members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The purpose of this action was to provide a weekly talk for the University by a speaker acquainted with some phase of the war. The step was prompted by the prevailing it orange as to the events which are in progress in Europe and the obvious necessity for men, particularly those in the R. O. T. C., to become informed of the conditions among the armies on the Western Front...
Although no announcement has yet been issued concerning the future schedule of lectures, the series will be resumed after Mr. Roosevelt's talk on Monday, and will continue throughout the remainder of the year. Wednesday evening will again be the time set aside for the subsequent lectures. Dean Haskins, of the Graduate Schools, is the chairman of the committee chosen from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to have general supervision of the entire series...