Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...decided by a two-thirds vote without debate; (b) the time for the vote shall be extended, if necessary, to allow every opponent of the bill so desiring to have one hour in which to state his objections to the bill." F.W. Catlett, E.C. Johnson, and D.A. McCabe spoke for the Seniors, and M.M. Horblit, I.I. Mattuck, and H.O. Ruby, for the Juniors...
Coach Frantz spoke of the assistance he has received during the past season from various graduates. If there is any man, he said, to whom Harvard owes its success in baseball during the last five or six years, it is Dr. Nichols. That success is largely the result of a policy inaugurated by him, and since his system was introduced we have not as yet lost the Yale series...
...began with the meeting of de la Tour and Governor Winthrop, whom he mentioned as Harvard's civil founder, and then traced the part played by Harvard graduates in winning possession of the continent from the French. He then spoke of the early New England migration to Acadia, with its large accompaniment of Harvard clergymen and of other graduates who became prominent in the contest for responsible government. The contribution of Harvard to the Loyalist cause was next described. In conclusion. Dr. Rand mentioned the large influence in Canadian affairs exercised by Canadian graduates from Harvard throughout the past century...
...Blackall, of Boston, spoke last evening in Robinson Hall on "The Baltimore Fire." The Baltimore fire, he said, is the first to be studied carefully by architects and contractors throughout the country, and undoubtedly will result in many radical changes in building construction. Though it has shown that an absolutely fireproof building does not exist, yet the seven buildings of first-class modern construction which stood in its path suffered no structural collapse. Often the greatest damage was due to combustion of a building's contents...
...those who won second prizes, Johnson gave Lincoln's "Reply to Douglas" with force and animation. Ballantine's rendition of O'Connell's speech "On the Irish Disturbance Bill" was sincere and impassioned. Bennett brought out effectively the pathos of the "Death Scene from Enoch Arden," and spoke with much natural feeling...