Word: borings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...London, Connecticut. Of the seventeen pamphlets contained in the volume, six were printed in Cambridge, between 1667 and 1682, and eight in Boston, between 1678 and 1686. Among the authors were three Presidents of Harvard College--Leonard Hoar, Urian Oakes, and Increase Mather, as well as Samuel Willard, who bore the title of Vice-President from 1700 to 1707. Five of them were, at one time or another, Boston ministers,--John Cotton, Samuel Mather, Increase Mather, Thomas Thacher, and Samuel Willard,--while Thomas Shepard and Urian Oakes were settled in Cambridge, Hugh Peters in Salem, Richard Mather in Dorchester...
...them; he should have high standards of truth and honor of his own which would enable him to lead the people rather than follow them. An excellent example of the influence of the college-bred man was exhibited in the Jerome fight in New York; when college men bore the brunt of the long and gruelling campaign against the Tammany thugs...
...Churchill traced the gradual political reform. The sentiment began here and there, and, after many failures, swept from state to state, until now it now it has become national. This reformation is due to the new type of men who have entered politics. In former days it was a bore to go to a political meeting where nobody was listened to or respected, but now the young man has stepped in and changed matters...
...Joseph Clark, for many years a missionary in Congo, gave a very interesting lecture in the Union last evening on the "Congo Reform Movement." The lecture was illustrated by the stereopticon, and the slides showing the dismembered victims of King Leopold's cruelty bore out the lecturer's testimony of the horrible atrocities committed...
Most of you here tonight are bearing torches. John Harvard was a torchbearer, and he bore a light that will never be extinguished! Down in the Stadium you will light another fire in honor of John Harvard. He lighted here a torch that will never...