Word: robert
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Malcom Storer, the Curator of Coins and Medals, reports the addition to that collection of 138 pieces by gift and of 11 by purchase. For 77 of these the library is indebted to Robert C. Winthrop '54. The special collection of medals struck in honor of Harvard men has been increased by medals of James Monroe h. '17; R. B. Hayes l. '45; Charles Sumner '30; Theodore Roosevelt '80; and the John D. Long '57 medal for debate, in gold, given by the founder, R. C. Surbridge...
...Robert E. Speer spoke in Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening on the value of Jesus Christ. There are two great things, he said, which Christ can do for us. In the first place He can show us what is right. Many believe that their consciences will tell them what is right. But conscience is a defective standard, for it allows men to differ most widely. A man's decisions on the rectitude of his actions must be made according to his moral judgment, and that judgment can be profoundly affected by Jesus Christ. It can be powerfully moulded for good...
Outing: "The Game of the Staked Plains," Robert M. Barker...
...Robert E. Speer's address in the Union yesterday evening was a plea for ignorance of all uncleanness. The proverb that "knowledge is power," he said, is only half true. Some knowledge is indeed a source of power, but some is a source of weakness and death, or worse. And of those things of which knowledge may be worse than death, a man should have the courage and the will to remain absolutely ignorant...
...Robert E. Speer will address the University Religious Meeting in Peabody Hall, Brooks House, at 7.15 tonight. Mr. Speer will be at Wadsworth House 1 from 10 to 1 and from 2.30 to 5 o'clock today and again in the evening after the close of the University meeting, and will be glad to see there any men who care to meet him personally...