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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening the Total Abstinence League was addressed in Sever Hall by Gen. John L. Swift and Col. T, W. Higginson. The meeting was fairly well attended. President Webster introduced the speakers of the evening...
...enterprise of the Total Abstinence League in receiving such able and entertaining speakers as Col. Thomas W. Higginson and Gen. John L. Swift is to be greatly commended. Those who have been fortunate enough to listen to the scholarly and eloquent addresses of Col. Higginson and those who have heard the brilliant and witty speeches of Gen. Swift will appreciate the opportunity given them to-night. Col. Higginson is well known to us all. Of Gen. Swift, we would like to say that a more amusing speaker, a better story teller, has rarely appeared before American audiences. He is often...
...Gersdoff, Sec., H. P. C. H. T. A. L. Col. T. W. Higginson and Gen. John L. Switt will address the H. T. A. L. this evening at 7.30 in Sever 11. All members of the League are urgently requested to be present, and the public is cordially invited...
...League started out well this year. Its meetings have been well attended and its audiences very appreciative. Rev. Joseph Cook and Hon. Neal Dow have accepted invitations to address the League in the spring, Next Friday evening the League promises the college two rousing addresses from Col. Higginson and Gen. John L. Swift; the former is the well-known historian and lecturer, and the latter is the editor of The State, the organ of the Prohibition Party, and vice-president of the Massachusetts Temperance Society...
...rival in the magnificence of the endowment, and in the completeness of its equipment, the famous colleges of the East. Stanford University promises to be in time, to the States of the Pacific Coast what Harvard or Yale is to the Eastern States. Judging from the plan of Gen. Francis A. Walker, and remembering the Senator Stanford offers several millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future for the university that is to be. Sad as it may be to think that the future classes of '97, '98, and the rest...