Word: speech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gore Hall (where Widener now stands): Ivy was ceremoniously planted over the box, but when all the plants died in 1876, this custom came to an end. The Ivy Orator, of course, has survived, but the Oration that began as a sober dedication later changed to a humorous speech. Two of the more famous Orators have been George Lyman Kittredge '82 and Robert Benchley...
John H. Sutter '51 and Robert W. Kratz '50, members of the Debate Council, took first and second respectively in an extemporaneous speaking contest held yesterday at the Emerson School of Speech and Drama in Boston. The contestants drew topics an hour before they were required to give their speeches, nine minutes in length...
During Schlesinger's speech, the History professor questioned the meaning of the term "Free Enterprise." He said it either meant freedom from government intervention or freedom from mon- opolies and cartelization. If the former is reliant, "the Free Enterprise members must face political chaos because the people will not stand for 'apple selling again...
...former vice-president, is the Hub for a speech last night, came to Cambridge with Italian Senator Michele Giua...
...knew what had been said. The speech was in Chinese. It might just as well have been in Urdu. To the delegates it was important only that it had been made by a Communist, China's Kuo Mo-jo.* The seekers after "peace"-of the Soviet-Russian variety-perfectly exemplified a lesson of the great Russian physiologist, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: to an artificial stimulus, they had made a conditioned response...