Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...home or to different places, and it would have been impossible to get them together. So we did not accept, but while we were training for the race on the Thames with Oxford, I met ex-President Brandagee of the Harvard club, and he again extended the invitation. I spoke to our captain, but nothing was done, because we were so busy. After the race the matter was talked over, and I wrote privately to Mr. Coolidge of the Harvard club...
...usual audience gathered last evening in Appleton Chapel to hear Rev. George A. Gordon. He spoke from the text, I Samuel, ix, 3; and x, 1; Saul sought an ass, said the preacher, and found a kingdom. There is many a man who seeks a kingdom and finds an ass. I want to discourse the secret of the success of the one man and the failure of the other. Saul found a kingdom because he was in the line of duty. Faithful devotion to duty in the least things is the surest path to success in the greatest. This...
...second informal talk under the auspices of the Natural History Society took place last evening, when Mr. S. H. Scudder spoke on the "Butterflies of Massachusetts." The following interesting facts were gathered...
...following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Messrs. Mahany, Walker, Bruner, Foss, Reisner and McAfee. Negative, Messrs. Daly, Perry, Osborn, Robinson, Surbridge, Hunt, F. W. Hager, and W. C. Greene. The speeches from the floor were received with marked favor, the speech of Mr. Mahany especially arousing great enthusiasm...
...mass meeting in Princeton College, Wednesday, the following officers of the Foot-ball Association were elected: Thomas B. Hamilton, class of '88, president; J. R. Barr, class of '89, secretary and treasurer. Wm. J. Cook, class of '89, captain of the team, spoke in favor of Princeton withdrawing from the present intercollegiate league, and uniting with Harvard and Yale in a new one. Prof. Johnson was introduced, and advocated the plan for the purpose of making a more compact league, associating the three leading universities more closely, formulating good rules and eliminating undesirable features. Capt. Larkin of the base-ball...