Word: speech
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final trials for the 1922 debating team will be held tomorrow night in Sever 11 at 7 o'clock. Each of the sixteen Freshman candidates, who were chosen from earlier trials, will be called on for a ten-minute speech. As a result of these speeches twelve of the sixteen will be chosen by judges W. A. Hosmer Occ, W. S. Holbrook '21, and H. Berlack '20. From these twelve those who show the most ability tomorrow night, will make up the two teams and alternates for the triangular debate on March...
Preliminary trials for the Pasteur Medal, founded in 1898, by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and offered annually for the best speech in English upon some topic of contemporary French politics, will be held in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock, tonight under the supervision of the French Department. Both the trials and the final debate will be upon the same subject: "Resolved: That it would be to the best interest of France that Allied Military Intervention in Russia be discontinued." Five-minute speeches may be on either side of the question, and will be judged by Dr. R. L. Hawkins...
...President Taft in his speech before the working people of Boston last Friday evening, said that all political and social misunderstandings could be done away with if people could only get together and talk things over. He quoted as an example of the truth of this statement his own experience with Frank P. Walsh. They had cordially disliked each other view on labor until they were placed on the same board. Since that time they have ceased criticizing and have developed a constructive program of reform...
...become associated with this work will never regret having undertaken it. It is up to us who have had special advantages of education to repay our debt to society by doing our part, and I know that Harvard men are going to make their contribution." Mr. Peters concluded his speech with a tribute to Colonel Roosevelt's remarkable comradeship and personality...
...Shannon. His personality impressed itself strongly on the minds of the men who served under him in the summer of 1917. From him they learned the lesson that a real officer must be, at one time, strict and kind and just. They learned that a real officer holds his speech until he has something to say, but on such occasions, speaks with remarkable clearness and force. And, lastly, they learned that a real officer must be at all times a gentleman. He furnished a concrete example for them to follow while their minds were yet in a plastic state...