Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Jefferson Coolidge '50 gave the University the sum of 35,000, the income of which should be used to give a prize of $100 to the best speaker at each of the two series of trial debates for the choice of representatives in the annual Harvard-Yale and Harvard-Princeton debates...
...Baron Pierre de Coubertin established as a prize for debating the Pasteur medal. The conditions governing its award calls for a debate on some subject of contemporary. French politics, the subject to be approved by the French Department, which is instructed to award the medal to the best speaker in the prize debate...
President Eliot was the first speaker. He said, in part, that the acquisition of power to work effectively was one of the great benefits of college life. A man should find out while in college just what his own particular work will be. This is the first great privilege of student life. A second is the chance to gain a broader outlook upon men and nature. A third privilege is the possibility of forming friendships, intellectual and spiritual, of life long duration. There ought to be a companionship of noble purpose...
...John D. Long was the next speaker. He said: Not only should a man look forward to tomorrow, but also look at today. Great names are held up as models for young men, and this sometimes, caused discouragement on account of the small proportion of great men. It must be remembered, however, that it is not the men themselves that are so much admired, but the qualities in the men, and every man should realize that he has in him the possibility of developing these qualities...
...Burgess, President of the Senior Class, was the final speaker. He urged all new men to go into some of the undergraduate activities, especially to support the football team, and if possible, to join the Union, as one of the great centers of undergraduate life...