Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...closing session of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association, was held Saturday morning, in Natural History Rooms' Hall, Boston. It was opened by Superintendent W. G. Bates of Fall River, who spoke on, "The Will and the Power to Do and to Be." Reports of officers and committees of the Association followed. Under the general business, a State Educational Council was organized, which will be connected with the Massachusetts Teachers' Association, but which will draw its membership, not to exceed one hundred, from the various educational organizations of the state...
...Robert A. Woods spoke last evening before the Educational Conference in Phillips Brooks House on the educational work of the South End House, of which he is head. Although not an educational institution, the South End House has developed many educational methods which have been put into practice by the city of Boston. Its object is to re-establish the ethical conditions which have been shattered by the tumult of life; and in pursuing this object it has accomplished a great deal in endeavoring to obtain a rational physical development; in attempting to equip boys and girls for their future...
...Anagarika Dharmapala of Calcutta, India, spoke last night in the New Lecture Hall on "The Purpose and the Essential Teachings of Gotama Buddha." He was introduced by Professor C. R. Lanman of the Department of India Phiology. The Anagarika, who is now on his third visit to this country, told of the way Buddhism is misrepresented in the western world. He discountenanced the popular belief that Buddhism is a religion of pessimists, and explained how its concept came to the mind of Buddha. "Buddhism," he said, "is a sort of absolute psychology; it is the religion of absolute happiness...
...concluding his lecture the Dharmapala spoke briefly of his object in coming to this country, which was to obtain the means to help educate the 50,000,000 poor children of India. Contributions for this charity may be sent to Miss Caroline Atkinson, Brookline...
...meeting of the Graduate Club in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House last night. Professor Henry Van Dyke of Princeton delivered a very interesting lecture, on "Robert Louis Stevenson." Professor Van Dyke spoke of Stevenson as a stylist, a constructor of stories and as a moralist. He mentioned Stevenson's early ambition to become a writer and the desperate real with which he worked towards that end. "The lesson of Stevenson's life," he said, "is that it is a fine thing to be brave." Professor Van Dyke, in speaking of the precision in the choice of words which...