Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Edmund Wetmore presided, with Dr. A. P. Peabody and Rev. Francis Peabody on either side. Among the guests present were Chauncey M. Depew, who spoke for Yale; Rev. Dr Henry J. Vandyke of Princeton and Frederic R. Condert of Columbia. Henry Villard, who recently gave $25,000 to the Law School, was also present. The dinner was in every way a most delightful one, and broke up in the "wee sma' hours" of Tuesday morning...
Wayne Potter also spoke of the coming university, and a resolution, which was adopted with a shout, asked the trustees to make it a university as soon as possible. - Boston Herald...
...Conference Francaise held a very interesting meeting in 18 Stoughton, last evening. Mr. Sanders spoke on "Les Cables Transatlantiques...
...much as in the total abstinence from them. He did not want it understood that he advocated moderation in the place of total abstinence. Far from it But we could not be blind to the fact that many people, who were by no means degraded, used it. He spoke at length of the tendency of science and of society to-day toward the total disuse of liquor. He then said that in college the probable cause of indulgence in intoxicants was due, not to the fear of saying "no," as is popularly imagined, but to the supposed loss or sacrifice...
General Swift then spoke for a half an hour in his characteristic pointed manner, interspersing his remarks with numerous anecdotes. He said that there were two schools of temperance, the wet and the dry. He preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards...