Word: speaker
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...race. After that he studied for a short while at a missionary school and then entered college. He is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. During the last fifteen years he has led a life of varied interests, having acted as a physician, missionary, writer and speaker. For the greater part of the time he has held an appointment under the United States government...
...Harvard Club of Boston held its first annual dinner at the Hotel Somerset last evening. The number of guests present was greater than that at either of the dinners to the victorious teams. Great appreciation and regard for President Eliot were shown by all the speakers as well as by the audience. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 presided and introduced the speakers. In a short address, before presenting Governor E. S. Draper, the first speaker, he complimented the younger alumni on displaying more wisdom than their seniors by founding the Boston Harvard Club...
President W. H. P. Faunce of Brown, the second speaker of the evening, paid glowing tribute to President Eliot for his influence upon all the colleges of New England. President Eliot has maintained a dignity which is seldom found, and has had the courage to submit his most advanced theories to the test of practice...
...Henry G. Spaulding '60 gave reminiscences of the older Harvard as it was half a century ago, before the Memorial Society in the Fogg Art Museum last evening. Many of the recollections had to do with events and experiences connected with the speaker's own class: its fondness for athletics, its devotion to the old-time system of prescribed studies, its literary efforts and finally its misdemeanors, culminating in an actual rebellion against the Faculty. This same disorderly and rebellious class has furnished five members of the Board of Overseers...
...brief discussion of the educational problem the speaker said that in his own College days the curriculum was a mixed system allowing a few electives for the Junior and Senior years, but in the main the old prescribed system of study then prevailed. The majority of the Harvard men trained under the compulsory system, put a broad foundation under their culture, while they were able by improving opportunities which in after-life never came again to enter into wide fields of thought and knowledge, lying wholly outside of their special life-calling...