Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...James Dwight played Mr. W. Renshaw, before leaving England in lawn tennis. Mr. Renshaw won in 3 straight sets, 6-0 6-3, 6-2, but the London papers speak highly of Dr. Dwight's playing...
...Speak ye voices of the even...
...Ellis in his remarks retaking to this statue, at the recent meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, said "Though many of John Harvard's contemporaries, who,-though he had been so short a time in the country, must have known something of his personal history,-speak gratefully of his generous gift, not one of them has left for us the slightest information of facts which we should be glad to know of this youthful, delicate scholar, fading away of consumption early in the second autumn of his exile. While the descendants of large numbers of the earliest New England colonists...
When Edward Everett was President, he was accustomed to address the students in reproof, but, instead of having the desired effect, his ideas were so eloquent, that men would commit faults merely to lead him on to speak to them...
...Richardson, Carrier, Libby, Conant, Eaton, Sanders. After the debate, Mr. Hansin brought forward resolutions on the death of Greenough Thayer, which were adopted. Mr. Eaton suggested that instead of the meeting being opened by speeches by all four of the principal disputants, two (one affirmative and one negative) should speak and the debate then be thrown open to the house, the other two principal disputants closing. Mr. Wait spoke at length in favor of this plan. The subject for the next debate is, "Resolved, That the best interests of Massachusetts demand the re-election of Gov. Butler...