Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, will speak this evening at the regular meeting of the St. Paul's Society, which will be held at 7.15 o'clock in the Noble Room. Phillips Brooks House. Mr. Thayer's address will be preceded by evening prayer at 7 o'clock. The meeting will be open to all men in the University, and St. Mark's School graduates are especially invited to be present...
...address he said that the American university today is graduating leaders who in the coming generation must have the prominent places in politics, in commerce, in education. To this end the university must be not merely a place for thinkers and scholars, but for education that is not scholasticism, but the co-ordinating of all the gifts with which man is endowed. The world is greedy for leadership, so much so that it is easily imposed on by demagogues. It is all the more necessary then that you should become honest, straightforward leaders. A leader is only a high type...
...some member of the Council; annual business meeting of the Council, consisting of a discussion on two questions: "Our State Campaign, with the motto, 'Some Church Responsible for Each Square Mile,'" and "The Readjustment of Missionary Work--How Far Necessary and Possible?" The afternoon meeting will close with an address by the Rev. R. G. Boville, national director of Vacation Bible Schools, on "A New and Needed Line of Co-operation...
President Eliot's address, printed below, was given from the steps of Holworthy at 7.30 o'clock, immediately after the parade had formed. Led by the Pierian band, the march to the field was then started. About eight hundred men, mostly with torches and sashes, were in line as the procession moved from the Johnston Gate down Boylston street. In the Stadium several formations were tired, ending finally in a gigantic "H" of torches, covering nearly the whole gridiron. The fireworks, while hardly sufficient to make a good showing in so large a space, added to the beauty...
President Eliot in his address from the steps of Holworthy said that twenty years ago nobody knew anything about John Harvard. His parentage, education, and life were a mystery. Since 1884, through the researches of a Harvard man, Mr. Henry F. Waters '55, more has been found about John Harvard than about almost any other man of colonial times. We know that he and all his kindred were tradesmen--butchers, cloth makers, coopers, goldsmiths--and that for several generations they lived in Southwark, one of the humblest quarters of London...