Word: governors
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...Governor Hughes of New York, candidate for the Republican nomination for President, spoke from his automobile before Tremont Temple yesterday afternoon to three hundred Harvard men who had formed an enthusiastic escort up Tremjont street from the Hotel Touraine. The governor's speech was strikingly virile and vigorous and was constantly interrupted by enthusiastic cheering. Mr. Hughes said that this escort was an improvement on his last occasion of being serenaded in Albany when the crowd sang "So Long Charley, Don't You Never Come Back Home!" After speaking of his pleasure of being able to address such a crowd...
...demonstration was under the management of the Hughes Club. Governor Hughes came to Boston yesterday afternoon, and besides the short speech to Harvard men, he addressed the New England Dry Goods Association in Tremont Temple, and the Brown University Alumni Association at the American House in the evening, leaving for Albany about midnight...
...Hughes Club will meet at the Hotel Touraine this afternoon at 5.15 to escort Governor Hughes from the hotel to Tremont Temple, wher he will address the New England Dry Goods Association. Mr. Hughes will not be able to deliver a formal address to the members of the club at Cambridge, but he is expected to speak a few words to their from the steps of Tremont Temple. All members are urged to be present in order to make a successful demonstration. Badges may be secured before 5 o'clock at Holworthy 9, the permanent headquarters of the Hughes Club...
Secretary Root has been actively interested in the conditions in the Congo, and Governor Curtis Guild '81, James J. Storrow '85 and Henry L. Higginson h.'82, are also supporters of this movement...
...committee consisting of S. Bowles '08, J. L. Boyce '10, J. E. Dewey '09, H. von Kaltenborn '09, G. P. Thruston, Jr., 1G., and J. S. Whitney '08, was appointed to draw up a constitution to be submitted at the next meeting. As several prominent Democrats, among them Governor Johnson of Minnesota, might be willing to speak at Harvard, the officers were empowered to arrange for speeches in the Union during the spring. The president was directed to appoint five members to serve with the officers as an executive committee, and to appoint a committee to arrange for club smokers...