Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speaker previously announced being unable to be at the Religious Union meeting this evening, Mr. W. A. Neilson will speak on "The Place of Sympathy in Religion...
...Lean on your subject" are the last two precepts. The author acknowledges that he has passed by "a whole class of helpful influences" and has "assumed that our cultivation in English is to be effected by naked volition and a kind of dead lift." He recommends him who would speak or write well to "live in the society of good speakers and writers, "for the society of the greatest writers is open to the most secluded...
...weekly debate of the Harvard Union will be held this evening at 7.30 in Sever 11. The subject will be: "Resolved, That, assuming adequate gymasium facilities, physical training should be made compulsory during the first two years at Harvard." M. S. Holbrook '99, and W. H. Hawkins '99 will speak for the affirmative and W. Morrow 1900 and M. Seasongood 1900 for the negative...
...question is of present interest, it is hoped that many students, though not members of the Union, will be present and will speak from the floor...
...would narrow his point of view and condescend to smaller subjects which form a part of his everyday life, and to which if he only knew it he could do justice, not only would the standard in that line of work be raised, but college literature would, so to speak, take off its disguise and appear in its natural light...