Word: speech
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class of '89 at Yale have set out an elm tree between Dwight and Alumni Halls. A dedicatory speech was made by R. J. Luce of the senior class...
...Women need the right of suffrage for self-protection. (a) They need it for the protection of their property and civil rights.- T. W. Higginson in "Common Sense about Women," p. 199. (b) There is no virtual representation for women.- Charles Sumner, speech, March...
President Eliot followed with a short speech upon "College Loyalties." He showed how they are of ten perverted so that they produce harmful results. The proper objects of Loyalty were next pointed out, and Professor Peabody was requested to continue the subject...
...years gone by had been "in the right side" in national difficulties. He was pleased to see that today Harvard's sons had put themselves to the front of a movement for a "government by the people," i. e., control by the Republican party. Although Judge Hoar opened his speech by deprecating that Harvard should appear as a partizan, yet he continued, "If it has got to be done, I at least am glad to see that she is 'on the right side.' " And then he goes on to make athoroughly partizan speech-perfectly in place for campaign stimulus...
...false impression of the Independent meeting. The college is not the property of any one, but is devoted to the truth alone. Rich, of the Law school, spoke at length, stating the proportion of protectionists in college compared well with the free traders. The meeting ended with a stirring speech by Gov. Long...