Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...making campaign speeches. The New York Times noticed his first efforts as follows: Princeton, N. J., Sept. 26, 1884. Tonight, Mercer Hall was filled with college students to hear the first political speech of the campaign in the college Mr. W. G. Webster of Illinois, recently of Michigan University, spoke stirringly and in an eloquent manner. The meeting was enthusiastic and closed with college cheers...
...chairman put the question to vote whether or not we should play foot-ball at Harvard. Upon this, remarks were made by Messrs. Phillips, '86, Woodbury, '86, Adams, '86, Claflin, '86, and Peabody, '87, all of whom spoke in the strongest terms in favor of a revival of the game. Mr. Phillips, in particular, urged the need of playing this fall if we hoped ever to play Yale or Princeton again. The motion was then carried without a dissenting voice amid a great applause and enthusiasm. Mr. Kimball stated that it depended entirely upon the new athletic committee whether...
...address to the students of Cornell University, President Adams spoke as follows on the way a college should be governed...
...college regards with pleasure the departure which its worthy president has made in delivering addresses before the students. Twice last spring he spoke on subjects vitally connected with college life. His talk on a choice of elective studies in college will ever be remembered by those who heard it. It was a talk pregnant with sound common sense and was of inestimable value to everyone in selecting such courses as would be of the greatest value to him in after life. President Eliot is a man of ideas. Whatever he may have to say upon a subject will be well...
...then called upon President Eliot to tell the assembled throng what he knew about John Harvard. President Eliot was received enthusiastically and told his auditors many interesting facts in regard to the founder of their alma mater. Gov. Robinson and Vice-President Hendricks received a warm welcome and spoke briefly. When our ex-Minister was introduced the enthusiasm was almost boundless, cheer followed cheer, and it was several minutes before he could proceed. He was listened to with the greatest attention. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Judge E. Reckword Hoar, Rev. James Freeman Clark, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, and others made remarks...