Word: speechings
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Pasteur Medal, offered annually for the best 10 minutes speech on contemporary French politics, was awarded last evening to M. Suravitz '13. The subject was "The Principle of Ministerial Responsibility in its Relation to the French Parliamentary System...
...English spoken in the United States is made up of many dialects, and we can tell at once where a man comes from by his manner of speech. With the negroes, however, there are 12 distinct dialects, which the ordinary American cannot distinguish. Mr. Smith paid a warm tribute to Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris for adding a unique page to English literature. Negro faithfulness cannot be overrated. In the old days the southerners entrusted the protection of their wives, mothers, sweethearts and daughters to negroes. Today the newspapers are filled with accounts of their atrocious crimes. This...
...conversation both William James and his father had a delightful sense of humor, a similar richness of vocabulary, and an equal individuality in its use. A peculiarity of both was the habit of delaying speech for an instant, while the mind was working and the telling sentence was framing itself for utterance--a brief interval during which the lips would gather slightly, as for a sort of smile, and the eyes and faces take on an indescribable expression of great charm. Then would burst forth one of those longer or shorter epigrammatic or aphoristic sayings which their friends all recall...
Following Mr. Merrill's speech, a short business meeting was held, at which J. V. Martin was elected as delegate, and R. M. Allen '11 as alternate, to the meeting of the National Council of Aero Clubs, which will be held in New York next Tuesday...
...opponent's line, the team with the most experience and greatest ability in diagnosing the other's plays will probably prove victorious. Fish refused to predict the exact score unless Coach Coy did so first, saying such predictions were good omens of victory for Harvard. After Fish's speech the old and new songs were practiced...