Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...charge, and in order to make them successful each man should come when he is invited. The dinners will be given about every two weeks until every member of the class has been given an opportunity to attend one. An effort will be made to have some outside speaker each time and there will be impromptu speeches by members of the class...
...street, to which all members of the University are cordially invited. Edward L. Hearn will lecture on "The Mission of Columbus." Mr. Hearn is Supreme Knight, or Read, of the order of the Knights of Columbus the most powerful of the Catholic brotherhoods, and is well known as a speaker all over the East...
...second of the William Belden Noble lectures, given last night by Bishop C. B. Brent, was on "The Power of the Single Motive." The speaker based his address on the necessity for a single dominating motive in the life of one who would be a successful leader...
...realize the possibilities of a good idea. Mr. Simonson sought to show in a stolid Teuton character the triumph of idealism over a materialistic environment, in connection with the conjuring of a masculine spirit out of a bass viol. He finally puts into the mouth of his chief speaker an expression of confidence in this triumph which his readers will hardly share. The characters are flimsy, the narrative is not well articulated, and the style is crude. If one must quote Ger- man, one ought to get it straight; and I, for my part, should think twice before alleging that...
Dean Briggs, the last speaker of the evening, recited an original poem composed for the occasion. The following is a copy of the poem...