Word: generalities
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...Joseph H. Choate'52, former United States ambassador to Great Britain, and General Horace Porter, United States ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905, will speak in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Hague Conference." President Eliot will preside and introduce the speakers...
...General Porter studied at the Lawrence Scientific School and is a graduate of West Point. He served in the field through the Civil War, and received the Congressional medal of honor for gallantry at Chickamauga. After the War, he became private secretary to President Grant, a position which he held for ten years. In 1904 he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor by the French government. Last summer he was United States delegate to the Hague Conference...
...partisan organizations proper, merely with their very apparent energy. In the future at any rate we may expect to see the club take an active part in affairs; and the appeal of our contributor for a wider interest and better support deserves, at this crucial time, a hearty and general response...
...ability have made them leaders in the affairs of nations. Last year we were especially fortunate in this respect-for fortune plays a large part in the securing of men with world-wide reputations. Tonight such an opportunity is at hand in the addresses by Mr. Choate and General Porter, who are to speak on the Hague Conference. Both speakers are authorities on their subject and should throw new light upon a topic far too little understood...
Professor H. S. Nash '78, of the Episcopal Theological School, will deliver the second of his lectures of the last series of the course of three conferences under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society, on the general topic "The Christian Faith" in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.15 o'clock. The address will be preceded by evening prayer. All members of the University are invited to attend...