Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large audience assembled in upper Boylston to hear the last of Dr. Waldstein's deservedly popular lectures on Greek...
Last evening a fair-sized audience assembled in Saunders Theatre to hear the lecture of the Rev. Joseph Cook on "Temperance." The lecturer was introduced by Mr. Webster, president of the Harvard Total Abstinence League. Mr. Cook began by comparing the prohibition question to the old slavery issue, and said he hoped that his hearers would live to seethe liquor traffic declared an outlaw thoughout the civilized world. The temperance movement takes root easily in the Anglo-Saxon nature. For the love of moral purity inherent in it awakens a great sensibility to moral questions, and we should...
...large audience assembled in Sanders last evening to hear Maj-Gen Crook's lecture on our Western Indians. Rev. Edward Everett Hale introduced the speaker, and said that Gen. Crook had been connected with the U. S. Army for many years. Since the civil war he has been stationed in Idaho and has had charge of the Indians in that district. Gen. Crook then said: In former years, treachery has been extremely prevalent among the Indians. It was their mode of warfare to fall upon an unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this...
...warpath and who is not merely a newspaper hero. Although the Cambridge Indian Rights Association, perhaps, did not have Harvard students particularly in mind when Sanders Theatre was selected as the place for the meeting, we assure the association that Harvard appreciated the opportunity to hear Gen. Crook. We hope that other Cambridge societies may follow this example in inviting other speakers to Sanders Theatre...
...taking measures to make its execution successful. We have a band that can undoubtedly vie with that of any other college; why, then, should we not adopt this plan also? It certainly would be a very enjoyable feature, and would add much to the pleasure of the meetings. We hear from our brass band only too seldom. It is true that we may be rather late in offering this suggestion; yet we hope that if the matter is favorably received by the members of the band, sufficient time is left for practice before the winter meetings...