Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen Harvard Clubs will hold luncheons during the Christmas holidays, Daniel S. Cheever, Director of University Alumni Affairs, said yesterday. All enrolled members of the College and the graduate schools may attend these luncheons, which feature films showing the highlights of the football season and a speaker from the University...
Straddling Views. Next day Deputy Leader Aneurin Bevan-with whom Gaitskell had wrangled long hours in his Opposition leader's room behind the Speaker's chair at the House of Commons -rose to deliver a speech of flash and fire that paid affable tribute to Gaitskell but straddled the views of Gaitskell and Barbara Castle. Nye Bevan had his own view of the proper socialist future: "In a modern society it is impossible to get rational order by leaving things to private economic adventure. Because I am a socialist, I believe in national ownership. I believe in what...
...occasion was the 138th anniversary of Panama's independence from Spain, and cooler heads tried to confine it to a university-sponsored sovereignty rally in a plaza eight blocks from the Canal Zone. But even before the first moderate speaker could finish, 200 well-organized rioters took over. They drowned out the speaker with screams of "Viva Russia!" "Viva Fidel Castro!" and "To the Zone!", charged out of the square. Outflanking Panamanian National Guardsmen, they rushed across Fourth of July Avenue (the zone border) and rammed a flagstaff into soft Canal Zone earth. "All right, now," said...
...other featured speaker at the affair was William T. Reid, Jr. '01, one of the College's most successful baseball coaches. A well-known catcher in his day, he offered advice to the varsity, junior varsity, and freshman baseball players attending the affair...
Derek C. Bok, assistant professor of Law and second speaker at the forum, pointed out that by this reasoning public sentiment was made to appear similar to compulsory arbitration. But public pressure is not really very effective, he contended...