Word: talks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subject of Mr. Eddy's talk has not been announced, but it will probably touch upon the war. During last year, Mr. Eddy traveled through France and England, visiting the various Y. M. C. A. huts at cantonments and at the front. When he spoke before an audience of Freshmen in the Smith Hall Common Room earlier this fall, he described the work being carried on by the Y. M. C. A. "over there...
...Bryan will speak upon some aspect of the war and the national situation. As yet the exact subject upon which he will talk has not been announced. Before his resignation from the Cabinet Mr. Bryan's attitude toward the war was severely criticized, and he was accused of being a pacifist. Since our entrance into the war, however, he has steadfastly upheld the policy of the administration and at present is on a speaking tour in which he is doing much to awaken the country...
...Halstead is exceptionally well qualified to talk on a subject connected with Austria because of his experiences during the last three years in the consulate at Vienna. When the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Austria-Hungary last spring, Mr. Halstead left Vienna on the special train which carried Ambassador Penfield and the rest of the American officials from that country. Since his return to the United States he has been connected with the State Department in Government work...
...like to be read aloud to, and if many of us object to this sort of thing frequently it is because the reading is not done well. Professor Copeland does not only read well; he reads better than anyone else. But more than this, his remarks and his talk--please do not think he will deliver a formal lecture--are the most enjoyable kind of an intellectual stimulus. It is no easy thing to be enjoyably didactic, but this Professor Copeland...
George M. Cohan used to sing through his nose and glorify his country. Hodge talks through his nose, but he, too, glorifies the country--the rural regions of it. In this play he is, as usual, just a plain, easy-going country chap, who can faze a multi-millionaire with a shrug of the shoulder. That's probably why Boston likes William Hodge better than Broadway likes him. And that's why, in spite of a rather vapid vehicle, William Hodge will continue to talk through his nose at the Majestic for eight or ten weeks--unless influenza seizes...