Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...night, with all the rain, might be called by many an extremely appropriate night for temperance addresses; and those who thought that the rain would have no effect upon the size of the audience were in slight error, for the audience in Sanders last evening was quite large, and spoke well for the popularity of the speakers...
...Robinson, '85, for the neggative: the other principal disputants were Mr. S. Storrow, '87, affirmative, and Mr. S. D. Richardson '86. The vote on the strength of arguments of these disputants stood affirmative, 6, negative, 22. When the debate was thrown open to the house, the following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Messrs. Duane, '88, Hobson, '86, Jennings, '85. Hammerslough, '88, Griffin, '88, Rich, '87, Carrier, '85. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole, stood, affirmative, 4; negative...
...oration by Dr. Brooks was a striking testimony to the place which the old school has found in the hearts of its graduates and breathed through every word a love and veneration for the famous school. The speaker spoke at some length of the past history of the school from the time when it occupied a shed on Spring Lane to the present time when it occupies the finest public school building in the world...
...spoke of the three great masters in the three great periods of the school's life.- Cheever in the seventeenth century, Lovell in the eighteenth, and Gardner in the nineteenth. The school was the teacher of many of the most prominent men of the country. Within its walls John Hancock learned to trace the name which stands first among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here were educated the Adamses, Paul Revere, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Emerson, Beecher, President Eliot, and a host of men who have stamped themselves on the minds of men. The speaker declared himself...
...singing and acting in a spirited manner. The Evening Post said in its account of the play: "No description can do justice to the performance, and it is expressing the truth but faintly to say that the large audience was deeply moved by it." All the New York papers spoke very favorably of the play. The party left New York on the Fall River boat on Wednesday afternoon. At 6 P.M. a special supper was served on the boat, the "Bristol," for the Hasty Pudding men, after which they entertained themselves and the passengers by several songs, and banjo selections...