Word: speaker
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...Coolidge Debating Prizes have already been awarded for the current academic year, and the Pasteur Medal will be awarded to the best speaker at the third inter-club debate between the Agora and the Forum--the upperclass debating clubs--on May 3. The conditions governing the award of the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of $100 for the best poem on a subject announced by the English department were published in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...said that he believed it to be the duty of every citizen to train himself to think clearly and to speak accurately on the questions of the day and that for this reason public speaking is of the utmost importance. There are two essentials for the effective public-speaker--information and earnestness. He must be thoroughly familiar with his subject and must believe firmly in what he says. Important aids to essentials are clearness of expression and brevity of statement, the one because all truth is self-evident, and needs only to be stated clearly to be convincing...
...Booker T. Washington h:'96 delivered a forcible address in the Living Room of the Union last evening, which clearly illustrated the conditions in the South today and showed the marvelous advance of the negro, as a result of education, since the proclamation of freedom forty years ago. The speaker was introduced by President Eliot, who emphasized the importance of young men getting a clear conception of what Mr. Washington rose from...
...third inter-club debate between the Forum and the Agora, the two upper-class debating clubs, at which the Pasteur medal will be awarded to the best speaker, will be held on May 3. The question for debate, which will be on a subject drawn from contemporary French politics, will be announced on March 22, and the trials for the club teams will be held on March 29, and April 3. Each club will hold independent trails on those dates, which will be open to their members. All men not members of either club who intend...
...social, educational and political matters. He has been closely identified with the work of political reform in New York, in 1905 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York County Committee of Jerome Nominators, in which capacity he did vigorous work as a public speaker. It was at his suggestion that the movement was started which resulted in the formation of the Intercollegiate Civic League at the City Club in New York City last March...