Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hall was already filled, when President Eliot introduced the speaker. He said in part: Our system of justice, the Common Law, is of Germanic origin and is a flexible and living law of a thousand years' growth. While the Roman law is older, still it shows no such uninterrupted continuity, no such persistent individuality. Our system is founded on principles, which were evident in early English justice and which, though changed and developed, have, in general character, remained constant. Early justice was rough, and the county-court, perhaps, a disorderly public-meeting; yet in its publicity lay the root...
...Burgess '04 presided. The first speaker was coach W. H. Lewis L.'95, who said that the prospects for a strong team this year are as good as they have ever been, and that what is needed now is enough hearty and fearless college spirit to induce undergraduates to go to games and daily practice, and to cheer the team with some confidence...
...address, gave a short account of the history and work of the St. Paul's Society. R. S. Wallace '04, described some of the phases of philanthropic work, and spoke of the prominent part such work plays in the life of the University. Dr. Peabody, the last speaker, gave a strong address on the temptations which beset a college man, and said that one of the chief advantages of college life is the opportunity it gives for obtaining a knowledge of character and for forming strong friendships...
Harry Joy Dunbaugh, who will represent the Law School, lives in Jacksonville, III. In 1899 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Illinois College, where he had been a prominent debater and speaker. At the Law School he has received a Scholarship of the first group. The subject of his part is "The Legal Responsibility of Labor Unions...
...life, the speaker said, is cut across by certain paths. From generation to generation, men follow somewhat in the same ways as the men before them. There is the way of sensuality, wherein follow men of many kinds of physical lust and hunger, but all alike in that their goal is the satisfaction of physical pleasure, men who--"eat, drink, and these are bitter and proud,--and they who have failed, and these are bitter and harsh. There are the ways of social ambition, of hypocrisy, of indecision. And, finally, there is the way of faith and of duty...