Word: hearings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is his first return to the United States since beginning his work in Alaska, and the lecture tonight will be an unusual opportunity to hear of that little-known country...
Once or twice in a College year an opportunity presents itself to hear men of great prominence and popularity, men whose forethought and 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...
...Clark That Astounded and shocked an audience in the Living Room of the Union last evening, a pettion against the fearful atrocities that are now being perpetrated against the natives in the Upper Congo region of Africa has been placed in the Union office. To anyone who did not hear Mr. Clark's bloodcurding narrative no wards depict the cuetly and the inhuman tortures by which these wretched beings are compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting his life work, that the pettion has been started...
Unfortunately but few men availed themselves of the opportunity to hear Dr. Allen speak on municipal reform in the Union last evening. Those who were fortunate enough to be present heard a frank and sincere statement of what can be done practically to solve the burning municipal problem. There was no theory, no meaningless generalizations; simply a straightforward talk from a man, who, not content with the conclusion that municipal government is a failure, is working from the bottom up, by determining the defects that make possible political corruption in our cities...
...daughter of a Delicatessenhaendler. Mr. K. B. Townsend, on the contrary, has given us in his short story, entitled "In a Field," an uncommonly artistic and vivacious tale of two people in whom we can readily believe, and about whose subsequent fate we should be glad to hear more. Mr. L. Grandgent's "In old New England" is, finally, as its title indicates, a historical narrative, based, I suppose, upon the traditions of the Maine town of Pemaquid, where the scene is laid. The general conditions under which the English settlers lived during the French and Indian Wars are interestingly...