Word: talk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...imposing some sort of powerful censorship; and such censorship could not be applied by the government without destroying the liberty which can be so beneficial. Not prohibited by the law, propaganda creeps in and is accepted by many as an almost essential part of freedom of speech. Men may talk on paper-dolls and tin soldiers, but that cannot be set among the successful results of toleration...
Each performance is preceded by a talk on the character and form of the music, which fixes the attention of the students on important points and assists them to understand and appreciate classical works until their tastes and standards become those of intelligent listeners...
...Arthur Whiting since 1907 has been the director of a course of education in music suitable to laymen in the universities of Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. He gives annually a series of five monthly concerts in each place, the performance being preceded by a talk on the character and form of the music, which fixes the attention on important points and assists in the understanding and appreciation of classical works...
...Club has arranged an interesting program of speakers for the month of December. On Tuesday of next week Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75 will give a talk on a subject to be announced later. Colonel C. H. Mason of the United States Army has promised to address the club on December 13 at 8.30 o'clock on "The Work of the General Staff and of the Military Intelligence Department of the Army." This speech will be illustrated with maps and slides. Colonel Mason, who is Situation Officer of the Genral Staff Corps, helped organize the Intelligence Department in this...
...they forget their petty squabbles and peanut politics and come to an agreement that will bring the Treaty into operation as quickly as possible. On Monday, the Senate reconvenes, and it is the intention of the would be assassins to block any action on the Treaty of Versailles. They talk of setting internal troubles, letting the matter of the ratification of the Treaty go another year, and making it a party issue next fall. It has been a party issue long enough. Verily it may he said of the Wilful Fifty that having eyes they see not; having ears they...