Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believe I speak for all the overseers in saying this. We are not going to abandon the study of Greek in Harvard. [Loud applause.] There will be some differences of opinion as to just what place it shall take in the curriculum, but so long as large numbers of students prefer the classical training, do not fear but that the college authorities will stand by them; and more, whatever-differences of opinion there may be as to the requirements for admission to college, we shall stand on this question all Greeks together. Though there may be a Cicoro...
Mayor Fox, in his fourth annual address to the City Council, speak of Harvard University as follows: "By one of the provisions of the constitution of our Commonwealth it is made 'the duty of magistrates to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge and the public schools.' Such a requirement of the constitution comes with peculiar force upon the chief magistrate of the city in which Harvard University is located, I am able to say that during my several terms of office it has been my pleasure, as well...
...just then, was new and fresh. Garrison was just then kindling a brand of fire that never went out until slavery was abolished. Wendell Phillips, a young lawyer, had just entered upon his career. Fortunately, I was assigned to the negative side of the question, and in preparing to speak upon that occasion I prepared my whole life...
Princeton seems to be particularly favored in the matter of general lectures for the students. Some of the best known literary men in the country have been selected to speak there. On Thursday last, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner delivered the first of a series of four lectures on "Literature and Life." This was received with much good will by a crowded audience in the Old Chapel. The second was on Saturday, and the other two are this week. The whole course is illustrated by selections from various sources. It is understood that the college is indebted to Professors Sloane...
...infusion of said spirits, would have no influence whatever. We have every reason to suppose from what we have seen that the close of the recent examination does not differ in the least from similar occasions in the past and that the spirit of which we speak is as prevalent as usual. Such being the case, the managers of the various college organizations whose pleasant duty it is to solicit subscriptions for the interests they represent, can choose no better time than the present to make their annual visits to their supporters. To aid them in their duties we feel...