Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Parke '98, the second speaker for Harvard, said in part; The eensus of 1890 shows that a large part of the recent immigration from Southern Europe, which is mostly illiterate, lacking in funds, and unskilled, settles near the Atlantic seaboard, and congests unduly in our cities. According to the great slum report, from 77 to 95 per cent of the slum population of our great cities is foreign. From three to seventy times as many of the foreigners in the slums are, however, from Southern as from Northern Europe...
...Freshman crew rowed: Stroke, Endicott; 7, Swaim; 6, Peyton; 5, Lyman; 4, Talbot; 3, Williams; 2, Whitney; bow, J. S. Lawrence. Hawkins, who has been rowing bow in the first boat, replaced Endicott in the second...
Raymond Tasker Parke '98 of Lynn, Harvard's second speaker, prepared at the Lynn Classical High School. His debating experience has been limited to work in the Harvard Union and the debating courses, English 30 and English 6. He is a Phi Beta Kappa man and a member of the University Debating Club...
...Hall he won the Freshman Declamation Contest and Sophomore Prize Debate. Last year he won first prize in the general competitive debate in Hall, was chosen by his class to be its Washington's Birthday Orator, and won the Junior Oratorical Contest at Commencement. This year he won the second disputation prize in the Baird Contest and has been elected Class Orator. He represented Princton in the recent Yale Debate and will represent Clio Hall in the Lynde Debate at Commencement...
Nathaniel Smith Reeves '99, lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. He prepared for college at the Brooklyn High School. Since entering college he has distinguished himself in Hall work. In freshman year he won second prize in the Whig Hall competitive debate and won the Class of 1876 Prize Debate on Washington's Birthday, 1897. He was a member of the victorious team in the Yale Debate...