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There were ten speakers in Sanders Theatre who made short addreses to President Eliot. Among them was Charlton MacVeagh, the then President of the CRIMSON, who spoke for the students and presented at that time to the University as a gift from the students the Hopkinson portait of Dr. Eliot now hanging in the Faculty Room at University Hall. We quote two paragraphs from this speech...
...President invites friendly political bigwigs, industrial potentates, labor chiefs, farmers' friends to White Pine Camp. They all go away, give out interviews, make speeches, whoop it up for "Coolidge and Prosperity." Last week came Howard Elliott (railroads), Earle P. Charlton (Woolworth, 5 & 10), Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York (on his second prosperity loud-speaking this summer...
...rumored last night, to bring about an incorporation of the Debating Union with the Harvard Union. The former has existed for four years as an individual institution, ever since its founding by F. A. O. Schwerz '24, R. F. Bradford '23, Corlies Lamont '24, H. C. Lodge '24, Charlton MacVeagh '24, and other students who were interested at that time in establishing at Harvard an institution similar to that at Oxford. The proposed amalgamation, according to sentiments expressed last night by men interested in debating, would not necessarily entail any loss of individuality on the part of the Debating Union...
...Harvard Debating Union founded four years ago. Among the list of the founders are the names of several leading men in the college: Corliss Lamont '24, the later treasurer of his class, F. A. O. Schwarz '24 and Charlton MacVeagh '24, President of the CRIMSON, B. McK. Henry '24 afterwards second marshal, and H. C. Lodge, Jr. '24. These men were all sophomores, when with R. F. Bradford '23, and others, they started the Debating Union at Harvard...
...Soon after 1 p. m. on a hot August day, the Prince of Wales alighted from the train, was met by Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes and Colonel C. E. G. C. Charlton, Military Attache at the British Embassy. Thousands of people assembled on the concourse leading from the station, hoping for a glimpse of the British Heir Apparent. Their patience was scantily rewarded, for the Prince walked quickly through the President's Room and entered the President's closed automobile, at the door of which stood Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright. As the Prince passed through...