Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee of the Free Wool Club met last evening and laid plans for the coming winter. It was decided to hold regular meetings once a month, the first to come the second week in November. Efforts will be made to secure ex-President Cleveland and other prominent men to address the club on the reform of the tariff and kindred subjects. The club begins the year in a flourishing condition with about seventy-five members and promises to take a prominent place among the numerous similar societies in college...
...RENT.- A large furnished study and bedroom, with bath room privileges, Terms reasonable. 5 Linden street. Address A. D. K. CRIMSON Office...
President G. Stanley Hall then read his inaugural address, in the course of which he said that, as business is absorbing more of the talent and energy of the world, so science is pervading literature, philosophy, and every branch of culture. The university should be strong where science is highly developed and should pay less attention to those departments of knowledge which have not reached the scientific stage. Our characteristic word should be concentration; we have selected a group of five departments and shall focus all our means and care to make these the best possible. The more advanced...
...opening exercises of Clark university took place Wednesday in the presence of fifteen hundred people in the main university building. General Devens began with a brief address of introduction and welcome; after a prayer, Colonel Washburn read a paper prepared by the founder, in which he said that although they had not the age of other universities, they had the privilege of using the experience of many centuries, and they proposed higher and better achievements than had yet been attempted. To the present department they intended to add others from time to time, until the full scope of the university...
President Hall was followed by Senator Hoar, who made an able and scholarly address. The last speaker was the Rev. Edward Everett Hale and the exercises were closed with a benediction by the Rev. Daniel Merriman...