Word: led
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting to commemorate the life and service of Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 was held in Sanders Theatre last night, the eve of Colonel Higginson's birthday. Mr. R. H. Dana '74, president of the Cambridge Historical Society, presided. Mr. Dana spoke of the active life that Colonel Higginson led in the public service. His two terms in the Massachusetts Legislature brought out that independence of action and of thought that so characterized his life. Colonel Higginson was the Democratic candidate for Congress in 1888 and although defeated, his sturdy fight did much to prepare the way for the election...
...obtained for 25 cents at the performance, Amee's, the branch store of the Co-operative Society, and Kent's Bookstore. Posters are also on sale at the branch store of the Co-operative for 25 cents. Incidental music will be furnished by an orchestra composed of undergraduates and led by F. R. Hancock...
...principal speakers will be President A. L. Lowell '77, R. P. Bass '96, Governor of New Hampshire, Gifford Pinchot, H. P. Amen '79, Principal of Exeter and Principal A. E. Stearns of Andover, and Assistant Attorney-General W. T. Denison '96, of Washington. Exeter songs will be sung, led by a Glee Club of the younger graduates, and good orchestral music will be provided...
...suffrage movement. From the French Revolution and the Reform Act of 1832 in England, women learned by experience that although they helped men to win political freedom, they were excluded their proper privileges on account of their sex after that freedom was won. It was this open injustice which led women to take up the fight for their political rights. Hence, at the opening of this century, the first woman's political organization in England was formed to organize the suffrage movement and to take some definite action in behalf of its cause. At the same time a popular demand...
...Grenfell first became interested in medical missions among the fishermen of Labrador in 1892. The suffering of the natives and the intense poverty throughout the fishing settlements led to the gradual establishment of a chain of hospitals, nursing stations, orphanages and co-operative stores along the coast. Communication between the scattered settlements was established by the visits of the mail boat, which now acts also as a hospital ship, collecting patients along the coast and bringing them to the various hospitals where proper care can be taken of them. In connection with the hospital work it is worthy of notice...