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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sumner's Fourth of July oration given in Boston in 1845 is today, 66 years after its delivery, annually published and distributed by the Peace Societies of England and America. Of Sumner's speech on "The Crime Against Kansas," given in the United States Senate on May 19, 1856, fully a million copies were circulated. It was reprinted and widely distributed in England. In this respect it may be said of Sumner: "He fired the shot heard round the world." This speech was never answered in debate. The bludgeon of the slave power in the hands of Preston Brooks...
Acting-Dean Wells, in a speech before the Christian Association said that Dean Hurlbut advocated strongly the appointment of four deans, one for each class, who should be under the supervision of a fifth. He himself, he added, believed that there should be even more--that the classes should be divided and sub-divided, each division having a separate dean...
Professor Bliss Perry's excellent speech on "The Honor System" at the CRIMSON dinner on Wednesday evening must have convinced those who were fortunate enough to have heard him that the honor system is a matter which must, in the immediate future, come before the undergraduate body for most serious consideration...
...fourth annual dinner of the Cosmopolitan Club was held in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening. D. C. Gupta '11 acted as toastmaster, and called first upon President Lowell, who made a short speech in introduction of the guest of honor, M. Jusserand, the French Ambassador to the United States, tracing the development of the system of exchange professors between Harvard and the French Universities...
...Jusserand in his speech pointed out that the exchange of learned men dated back to the earliest times, when printed books were as yet unheard of and writings a scarcer commodity than men. The institution of the University of Paris gave an enormous impetus to this work. Paris became the gathering place of the scholars of the world, whence the knowledge and teachings of the most learned men were disseminated to all corners of civilization. Then came a great revolution, the discovery of printing. Now men became a scarcer commodity than the printed book, and the exchange of men diminished...