Word: speaking
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...irreparable for those of us who turned to him when they sought an adviser gifted with unusual sagacity, fairness of mind and quickness of sympathy. In the Faculty he held a unique position. At our meetings he spoke rarely, even while he was Dean; but when he did speak, whether in an official or an unofficial capacity, he was listened to with deferential attention, for we all knew that he weighed his words, and that what he had to say would be to the point and would advance business. On more than one important occasion he was chosen...
...Sophomores to speak in the interclass debate will be: E. Bernbaum, J. H. Holmes, E. H. Letchworth and H. DeBray as alternate...
...John Jay Chapman '84 will speak in the Fogg Museum Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Civil Service Reform Club. The address will be an informal narrative of interesting phases of political corruption and the work of reform, under the general subject of "Public Opinion." Members of the University are requested to arrive before 7.55, after which time the doors will be open to the public...
...lecturer went on to speak of his first meeting with M. Villiers de I' Isle Adam, describing the man and his character. He told of his strange conversation, his terrible irony and deep scorn for his century, which replaced the cult of idealism by materialism. In nearly all his works are to be found these characteristic features. In his "Contes Cruels" and "Histoires Insolites," Villiers de I' Isle Adam is full of irony, especially in that stange "Tribulat Bonhouet...
...from the faculty and local graduates who are interested in debating to take charge of the coaching for the debate and to make the final selection of the three men who will represent Yale. At the preliminary trials for the Academic Department the following eight men were retained to speak at the final trials on Wednesday, March 7: G. H. Bartholomew '00, H. A. Dow '00, A. D. Leavitt '00, E. W. Ong '00, T. W. Swan '00, M. Trowbridge '02, A. Tulin '03, and P. C. Walcott...