Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dash and spirit with which the players on the class elevens enter into the games for the college championship, there still is one feature of their play which I cannot admire. There is much profane language indulged in by some of the players and, as they do not always speak in the softest of tones, the practice has excited some comment. Especially was such sulphurous language objectionable on Monday when several ladies were present at the game. Their presence, which ought, if anything could, to have retained their careless or thoughtless players of whom I speak, seemed to have little...
Among the prominent persons who will speak at the Mass. Teachers' Association on Friday and Saturday the 27th and 28th are: Rev. E. E. Hale, Rev. J. T. Duryea, and Miss Alice C. Freeman...
...following men will speak as principal disputants at the next meeting of the Harvard Union: Affirmative, F. H. Darling, L. S., H. E. Fraser, '86; negative, S. B. Rogers, L. S., L. McK. Garrison, '88. The question is, Resolved, that capital punishment should be abolished. A large number of books bearing on the subject has been reserved in the library...
...section numbering over two hundred men, and as it will be impossible to obtain a duplicate copy for several weeks at least, we may imagine what inconvenience will be suffered by two hundred men on account of the ungentlemanly action of one man. Such carelessness, if we speak charitably, or selfishness, if we give the right name, ought to meet with open reproof and penalty, and we regret that the offenders, who have on several occasions purloined books from the library, have not had their offence made known to the public. An absolute entailment of all library privileges...
...least things. Each grain of sand helps to keep back the ocean. The great heroes are few, only two or three in a million. Our task is to honor and help them. "To you, students of Harvard University, because I shall never see you again, I shall speak these words of hope, encouragement, inspiration. Can you sacrifice pleasure and success to duty. Have you faith? If you have it, however small, you can move mountains. By faith Columbus, Washington, Channing, Garrison, Lincoln, lived their great and useful lives. America needs a new enthusiasm and calls on you, the trustees...