Word: talks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exaggerations and the style is a little too elaborate and rhetorical throughout. The editorials, which counsel calmness and independent reflection together with earnest preparation for all eventualities, are sound in substance, but here and there awkward in exposition. The reviewer is not sure whether the cleft infinitive ("to merely talk") is to be regarded as an oversight or as a declaration of independence...
...meeting of the University baseball squad was held in the Locker Building yesterday afternoon before practice at which Captain G. E. Abbot '17 and Coach Duffy addressed the players. Captain Abbot gave a short talk on the baseball spirit and urged the men to talk and think baseball as well as play it during the entire practice. Discussions of plays among the men is especially helpful, he declared. Coach Duffy then outlined his plans of the work as it will be carried on while the squad is forced to practice in the cage. One of the features of the practice...
...daily program is arranged entirely with these ends in view. In the mornings and the evenings addresses are delivered by leaders in Christian thought and service, Bible and mission classes are held, and opportunity is given to men to talk over ethical and religious problems of general and particular interest. The afternoons are devoted to athletics of various sorts, representatives of the colleges organizing intercollegiate competitions in baseball, track and tennis. There is always a general conference accompanied by an address after dinner...
...Morgan will also speak in Emerson J tomorrow at 12 o'clock. The subject of his talk will be "Brazilian Foreign Relations," and particular reference will be given to the relations between Brazil and the United States, Germany and France...
...those characteristically Gallio dramas in which after a full half-hour of rapid dialogue the heroine remarks to the hero: "Alors, mon ami, causons un peu." They then sit down comfortably and continue it for another half-hour. Words cannot describe the perfect Niagaras of conversation, the torrents of talk. And it is all declaimed in an incredible literary jargon which is like nothing in France, or the world, or anywhere except the boards of the Odeon and the Ambigu. The following is a good enough example...