Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...offers an alternative. First, that witnesses be compelled to give testimony, and secondly, that the faculty give up every care of the students except in scholarship. The first is practically impossible, be cause for one reason, a student who feels that some one is trying to compel him to speak against his will would be all the more likely to refuse, and, also, because then the undergraduates and the instructors are at once pitted against each other in the old hatred which, thanks to the liberalism of recent years, is fast passing away. But the second course. When we come...
CONFERENCE FRANCAISE. - Meeting this evening at 7.30 in 18 Stoughton. As Mr. Mitchell is unexpectedly called away, Mr. Cohn will speak on "Les grandes ecoles de la France." Please come promptly as there is some business to come...
...Blaine in the Senate and as Secretary of State was conspicuous for its straight forwardness and honesty. Mr. Blaine favors civil service reform. When he ran for President in 1884, he was opposed by only four Republicans of national renown, one of whom, Carl Schurz, was hired to speak against him for $200 a night. (Laughter.) We believe that Mr. Blaine should be nominated because he has rendered more conspicuous and signal service to the country and the party than any of his contemporaries, and because, more than any other man, he represents the Republican party and the American people...
...regards class feeling in the early part of the course, it is proper and necessary to speak of hazing; and a very few words will suffice. The wild reports that have been circulated through the newspaper world within a few years have had only the barest foundation in fact. The unparalleled atrocities and so on have consisted in a quiet call upon some unwary freshman, a reading of some Greek or Latin author to the company by their unwilling host. probably from a recumbent position upon the table, and, finally, an invitation given him to retire to his couch...
...Committee,S. M. MACVANE."The object of the committee is to make way with as many as possible of the evils which the present Tabular View contains. Students will be glad of this opportunity to speak with the probability of obtaining a change for the better in the grouping of courses...