Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next meeting of the Harvard Union, Williams, '85, and Furber, '87, will speak for the negative, and Huddleston, '86, and Davidson, '85, for the affirmative, concerning the advantage of changing the requisites for admission to the college...
...word freedom has many meanings. When who say that a stream is not free to flow because it is frozen, we do not speak of the same freedom as when we say that a Negro is not free to vote because he is intimidated. For the Negro may still vote if he has cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean...
...When we speak of freedom of the will, we usually understand a kind of freedom different from all these. We mean by freedom, that a man, solicited by given motives in a given emergency, may act in various ways. For instance: the fact that I am enjoying a walk does not prove that I went out, or am walking now, of my own free-will; on the contrary, my enjoyment, in so far as it has any bearing at all on my freedom, tends to discredit it; since it would be harder to assign a reason for my action...
...evening meeting was public, and was held in Appleton Chapel, being called at about quarter past seven. Fifteen minutes was given to a song service, and then followed addresses by Mr. H. M. Moore, and Mr. Clifford, of London. Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., was to speak, but was unable to be present. A letter, however, from Dr. McKenzie was read at the meeting...
...running the hall at such a small cost, but is there not such a thing as running it too cheaply? It seems to us that in avoiding one extreme the management has fallen into the other. The board, especially the lunches, is altogether too poor. We believe we speak for the great majority of the boarders when we say that an advance in the price of board of from twenty-five to fifty cents would be gladly welcomed, if accompanied by an improvement in the lunchee, and by an improvement, we mean a perceptible improvement, not old things...