Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unusually large audience listened to the debate at the Harvard Union last night. The subject was, "Resolved: That Russian Nihilism is justifiable." The vote on the merits of the question resulted in 67 votes for the affirmative and 43 for the negative. The following gentlemen spoke as principal disputants, affirmative, A. B. Houghton, '86, and E. J. Rich, '87; negative, A. C. Boyden, '86, and J. M. Merriam, '86. The skill in argument was decided in favor of the negative by a vote...
When the question was thrown open to the house, an animated and interesting debate ensued. The following gentlemen spoke from the floor, affirmative, Mahany, '88, Bronson, Sp., J. W. Richardson, '86, Duane, '88, Shaughnessy, L. S., Hutchings, '86, Cotter, '87, Hammerslough, '88, Barry, '89, Barber, '87, Frye, Sp.; negative, Loeb, '88, Hamilton, '87, Campbell, '86, Kilvert, '89, A. B. Robinson, '87, Shoemaker, '89, Bolster, '86, Page, '88, Reisner, '89, McAffee, Sp. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole stood, affirmative, 15; negative...
Yesterday afternoon a fair-sized audience assembled in Sever 11 to hear the first lecture of the course on "Health and Strength." Judging from the first the course will be of great interest and value to all. The doctor spoke in part, as follows: "My plan is, after two or three preliminary lectures, to take up the various systems of the body in order. We shall then be able to consider some of the causes which produce disease, and the means by which we may prevent the action of some of these causes. The constitution a person inherits will play...
...certain paper, published early last October, spoke editorially as follows: "The note of preparation has sounded busily at Harvard, and it will not be long before the students are deep in their studies. Both mind and body will soon be engaged, the former in the intellectual and the latter in the physical. It is but natural to expect that the more intellectual arts and sciences will be absorbed in unobtrusive silence, and that their achievement will not attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot...
Only two men spoke from the floor at the last Union meeting...