Word: speaker
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...committee of the Monetary Commission appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House under the provisions of the currency bill passed at the last session of Congress, at their last meeting passed a resolution inviting A. P. Andrew '95, assistant professor of economics in the University, to assist them in their work. Professor Andrew is one of the leading authorities of the country on currency problems and he will sit with the committee at the hearings, at which representative financial and business men will be asked to give their views as to the country...
Coach Quinn, the first speaker, expressed his opinion of the favorable outcome of the track events, and emphasized the fact that the meet would not be won until the last point was decided...
...Garcelon L.'95 was the last speaker. A man has more vigor and more energy when he leaves the University if he takes part in athletics, said Mr. Garcelon, and every man should be urged to do so. For that reason the minor sports, or any clean and wholesome sport in which men are interested and which can call out the best players in the University to represent it, should be kept and encouraged, that Harvard may send out men better equipped for life in every way. Applause and enthusiasm are always good things, but what we want...
After leaving College Mr. Frothingham soon rose into political prominence. He was several times a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and finally speaker, and is an important candidate for Lieutenant Governor next year. Mr. Washburn entered the second year of the Law School in 1891 and was admitted to the bar in 1892. In this, his first year in the Massachusetts General Court, he has proved to be one of the Commonwealth's most promising lawyers...
...consistency of Harvard's team work, the superior strength of their arguments, and the manner in which they broke down the case of the affirmative, especially on the point of the evils of the present system of divorce laws. L. T. Bates, of Yale, was pronounced the best speaker of the evening...