Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Brewer Eddy, traveling secretary for the Y. M. C. A., addressed the Freshmen in the Smith Hall Common Room last evening with a vivid talk on war conditions in Europe. He was introduced by A. Beane '11, who characterized the speaker as one of the ablest men "to stir an audience on a war topic" he had ever heard...
...Montt, Honorary Consul from Chile; the next speaker, described the life of Latin American students, contrasting the college spirit there to the American college spirit, and showing the progress of the Y. M. C. A. in South America...
...Scudder was the next speaker and he outlined a general plan for the campaign next week. Buttons will be given to all subscribers to the loan. A plan was also considered by which a group of men, any one of whom cannot buy a bond for himself, may buy a bond together which will later be sold and the amount and accrued interst divided between them
...this point the speaker brought his words home by declaring that unless those who stay here hold themselves just as true on a fixed course, they will become "mere onlookers, helpless to aid in the struggle. In some ways," he went on, "it is harder for us at home than for those who are fighting, for they have a concrete task before them, while we apparently have only a stale, dull, unimportant routine ahead...
...meeting was well attended by the Freshmen. A. Beane '11, introduced the speaker, and Dr. A. T. Davison '06 led the singing...