Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suppression of the latter. The very nature of our civilization demands that these armies shall be maintained. They have also a historical justification. The Persians. the Egyptians, and the Greeks all maintained large military establishments. Armies protect commerce, they prevent many wars and shorten others. They are, so to speak, a tax for insurance. Military discipline educates the lower classes, and begets in a man a cordial and enthusiastic love of country...
...LOEB, Sec'y.DEUTSCHER VEREIN. - Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Hollis 21. Prof. Lanman will speak on "The Connection between Indian and German Fables...
...following members of '88 will be entitled to speak for the Junior Exhibition Prize, which will be contested for on March 31: Lawrence J. Carmalt, Irving Fisher, George B. Fowler, Eugene W. Harten, Orland S. Isbell, Fred. P. Solley, Henry L. Stimson and Frank L. Woodward...
...great pity that at a pleasant reunion such as this, Captain Peters could not have laid aside his ancient and well-known grudge against Harvard; but it is a still greater pity that he should so far forget himself at a public dinner as to speak in such ungentlemanly and ungenerous terms of a defeated rival. There are, of course, two explanations: Either Captain Peters is no gentleman - which we are loath to suppose - or he was so under the influence of sparkling Hock and iced Moselle that he did not know what he was talking about...
DEUTSCHER VEREIN. - There will be a public meeting of the society this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Sever 11. Dr. Francke will speak on "Bismarck und der deutsche Reichstag...