Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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About 450 men attended the reception given to the Freshman class last night by the Phillips Brooks House Association. The meeting was opened with selections by a quartette of the Glee Club, after which J. D. White '07 introduced Dean Hurlbut, the first speaker...
...next speaker, D. G. Field '07, after enumerating the opportunities for upholding the literary reputation of the class, explained the character of the CRIMSON, Advocate, Lampoon, and Monthly, and spoke of the places in the University filled by each. Of all things, said Field, I wish to emphasize the importance of closely uniting the class in its first year. A well balanced class should be represented in literature as well as in athletics, musical organizations, and divers activities...
...Endicott Pearbody of Groton will give the address on teaching as a profession; the speaker on medicine has not yet been announced...
...senior team won the interclass tennis tournament which closed Saturday. Hon. Emory Speer of Georgia has delivered a course of lectures on the Storrs foundation at the university during the week. Judge Speer is a remarkable speaker and his addresses have been exceedingly interesting and instructive. He has taken as his subject the lives of great Americans...
Professor Nelson pointed out in great detail the difficulties in political life which beset the country and those which Mr. Curtis had to face. Under the present regulations, continued the speaker, there are over one hundred and seventy-two thousand persons, in the classified service list who are subject to civil service examination, but there still remain some seventy-five thousand offices throughout the country which are the spoil of the Senate...