Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Hollis spoke of the difficulties which had been surmounted in the construction of the boat house, and alluded to the generosity of Alexander Agassiz '55 who added to the gift of the New York Club enough to make the house entirely fireproof...
...Boys' Club conference last evening Mr. Robert A. Woods, of the South End House, spoke on the great value of work among boys that is unflinching in purpose and motive, and of the necessity of taking a sincere interest in such work. Mr. Field of the Eilis Memorial Club, the Rev. Endicott Peabody of Groton, Dr. Merriman of Worcester, and others addressed the conference...
...service in memory of the late Dean Everett was held night in Divinity Chapel. Professor Emerton spoke first, confining himself to the life of Dr. Everett as a teacher and a great thinker. After a reference to his philosophical beliefs and writings, he showed how these had affected his theological ideas and had broadened his view as a teacher...
After Professor Emerton had concluded, Professor Peabody spoke briefly of the Dean's personal qualities and their influence upon all who came in contact with him. One of his most marked traits was a ready sympathy that served as in the case of Phillips Brooks to hide the deep reserve of his inner nature. Dr. Everett was not a great administrator nor an organizer of especial ability, but it was in his power to reach heights of thought and inspiration to which ordinary men cannot attain. The ease with which he treated the most profound subjects showed how thoroughly...
...Carroll D. Wright spoke last night on "The Course of Real Wages in the last Half-Century," a sequel to his lecture of the night before on the course of money wages during the same period. In the latter lecture he had shown the great rise in the wages of labor and in his discourse last night he showed that the effects of this rise had been accentuated by the contemporaneous decrease in prices...