Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lectures given last week included the following. Mr. L. T. Powers gave a dramatic recital of "David Garrick;" Mr. M. E. Stone spoke on "The Influence of the Newspaper in American Life;" Mr. Jack London gave a rather radical address on "The Coming Crisis;" Professor G. H. Palmer gave the second of the Harvard lectures, his subject being "Some Aspects of Ethics," and Mr. H. W. DuBois delivered a most interesting address on "Alaska." Ninety-eight men reported for the first trials for the Dramatic Club...
President Hadley left on January 28 to attend the dinner of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland. Last evening he made an address there on, "Efficiency in Education...
...year may wish to give. Any men about to leave Cambridge who have clothing of any sort, in condition to be serviceable, which they do not wish to take with them, are requested to send word at once by postal card to D. C. Hyde, Phillips Brooks House, giving address and time at which the clothing may be called for Books and magazines can also be used. The Committee's wagon will call for any articles men may wish to give...
President Eliot delivered an address at the Prospect Union yesterday afternoon on "Just Reverence Consistent with Genuine Democracy." He showed that in order to have a true belief in permanent democracy it is necessary to understand that democracy does not destroy reverence, but increases it in an altered form. The democratic reverence is not a reverence for symbols, but for the facts behind the symbols; an estimate of the true value. The great movement of the world today is towards democracy, which one hundred years from today will exceed any present conception. If the democracy of this great country...
Professor Pickering, in his introductory address to the President, makes an urgent appeal for money, and details some of the pressing needs of the Observatory, among which is the demand for funds for the care of the collection of 182,277 photographs. This collection is unique and gives the only existing history of the stellar universe for the past 20 years. Fire-proof buildings are especially needed for the library, photographic laboratory and the workshop. The total number of volumes and of pamphlets in the library on October 1, 1905, was 11,459 and 24,474, respectively...