Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...view. The management was very fortunate in its choice of officers. President Eliot as presiding officer, added much to the interest of the evening, and the judges were men of prominence and well versed in the knowledge of public affairs. We are certainly grateful to the Hon. Wm. E. Barrett, President Andrews of Brown and Profes-Seligman of Columbia, for consenting to act as judges, and we may feel confident that they were perfectly fair and impartial in discharging their part. The large audience and the presence of many distinguished graduates and members of the Faculty upon the stage testified...
President Eliot presided over the debate and the judges were Pres. E. B. Andrews, of Brown University, Prof. E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia College and Hon. W. E. Barrett, Speaker of the Massachusetts House. The subject of the debate was "Resolved: - That the power of railroad corporations should be further limited by national legislation," and the disputants, for Yale, E. R. Lamson '93, F. E. Donnelly '93, H. S. Cummings L. S.; for Harvard, Carl Vrooman Sp., E. H. Warren '95, A. P. Stone '93. President Eliot spoke briefly of the inability of public men to speak forcibly...
DAVID TAGGART CLARK.3 Stonghton.Speaker Barrett has offered a prize at Dartmouth for the best literary and journalistic work...
...overdrawn realism or naturalism; it is well nigh time we were hearing of editors stopping the publication of stories on account of the greater sin of stupidity. The world has already had more than enough of "Harry" and his "Career" and of Mr. John Seymour Wood. To quote Mr. Barrett Wendell. a story has no reason for existence when it fails to interest the reader. "Harry" has long since ceased to interest one - except as a curiosity, - a freak of literature...
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