Word: talks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from the stiff work of the past two days the University football team was given a very light practice yesterday afternoon. The preliminaries consisted of the usual talk in the Locker Building, a rather prolonged punting drill for the backs and ends, and some light charging practice for the lines-men. Captain Mahan did practically all the punting, Horween and Robinson being off the kickers' list with sprained ankles...
...Marquis and Marchioness of Aberbeen and Tenair, of the House of Cromar, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, will speak in the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The Marquis was formerly Viceroy of Ireland and his address will be on "The Memories of a Viceroy." Lady Aberdeen will talk about "Social Advance in Ireland...
Lothrop Withington '11 will talk to the class on subjects of interest. W. J. Bingham '16, captain of the University track team will lead the singing. The Union has secured Mr. Farron, one of the best known card tricksters in the country and he will entertain with many new numbers. Norman Stanley, a popular singer will render several entertaining songs. Refreshments will be served and beer and cigarettes will be on hand...
...tools of one's trade. The lawyer, for example, or the physician, or the engineer, may have a complete mastery of all the technical learning of his profession without possessing culture. This is evident at once when he comes into contact with men of other professions. He may talk profoundly about his own subject, but have nothing intellectual in common with the other men if he lives within the four walls of his own occupation and his vision is strictly limited thereby...
...large a part of general conversation in America relates to the weather, to politics, and to sport, is not so much because these things are intrinsically more interesting or variable than in other countries, as because they are among the few subjects that everyone is familiar with and can talk about. Professional learning is, no doubt, cultivating, but standing alone, it is not culture, for the reason that it is circumscribed and includes only a narow part of the stream of thought. For a lawyer to look through the microscope of a man of science increases his means of culture...