Word: spoke
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...last evening in the Living Room of the Union. R. S. Wallace '04, chairman of the Freshman Reception Committee, presided, and introduced the speakers. Major Henry L. Higginson h.'82, as president of the Union, described the purposes of the "House of Friendship," and Professor A. L. Lowell '77 spoke briefly on the opportunities of college life. After the addresses the men gathered round J. H. Densmore '04 at the piano and sang the University songs...
Secretary of the Navy, William H. Moody '76 and Mr. Gifford Pinchot, head of the Government Bureau of Forestry, spoke in the New Lecture Hall last evening, under the auspices of the Political Club. In introducing Secretary Moody, President Eliot said that the navy was of great importance to University men because of their interest in mechanics, and because it was a work-shop...
...Moody went on to describe the military and industrial duties of the Navy office and its seven distinct bureaus of work. He spoke of the accomplishments of the United States naval officers and of the increasing intelligence of the ordinary sea-men. He refuted the charge of poor markmanship, with the statement that the efficiency along this line was superior to what it had ever before been in the United States Navy. Speaking of the new ships now being built, he brought out the fact that the United States was building not because war was wanted, but because...
...fifteen men who spoke last night at the second trial to pick the team for the Yale debate, the six retained are: H. A. Hirschberg '06, F. Q. Morton '06, E. M. Rabenold '04, T. H. Reed 3L., A. B. Weiler 2L., M. E. Weldy...
...last of his series of five lectures on "The Expansion of the Common Law," in the New Lecture Hall on Saturday. The lecture was in the nature of a continuation of that of Friday, and was on "The Law of Reason--Natural Justice in the Common Law." Professor Pollock spoke of the principles of natural justice as found in the Common Law of England, and outlined the rules of contributory negligence and their relation to the laws of natural justice. In speaking of the relation between the laws of nature and the common law he explained that the natural ideas...