Word: spoke
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...George I. Aldrich, Superintendent of Schools, Brookline, speaking upon this subject, protested against the advanced admission requirements of the college and particularly of Harvard. President Eliot spoke at some length with reference to the amount of time that should be given to secondary education, and the difficulties involved by the present admission requirements. Reform, he said, in our own system, rather than the adoption of the German system is what is needed...
...annual dinner of the Association took place in the Assembly Room of the Union, after the open meeting. "Expenditures for Education" was the after-dinner topic. Mr. Edwin P. Seayer '64, Superintendent of Schools, Boston, spoke on "Expenditures for the Public Schools," and Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham '86, of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, and Mr. Robert A. Woods, Head of the South End House, Boston, spoke on "Expenditures in Educational Philanthropy." President Eliot also spoke...
...Eliot's recent trip to the middle West, with a full report of his address on "Washington's Times and Our Own--Contrasts and Resemblances," given at the banquet of the Union League Club in Chicago. An account of the Harvard Chicago Club dinner at which President Eliot also spoke is included in this article and a list of those present. Next to this in interest is the address, printed in full, by General H. S. Huidekoper '62, on "Harvard in the War of the Rebellion," delivered at the dinner of the Harvard Club of Philadelphia. The rest...
...Wilfred Grenfell of the Hospital Ship, "Strathcona," spoke last evening in Sanders Theatre on "Labrador Life on the Atlantic Seaboard." He told of the topographical and scenic characteristics of the Labrador region and of the peculiar conditions of life existing there. Among the fishermen and the natives on the barren coast, the Royal Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, under whose direction Dr. Grenfell's hospital ship is conducted, has for many years been doing a very successful work...
John McGaw Woodbury, Street Commissioner of New York City, spoke at the Union last night on "The Need of College Men in Municipal Government." He emphasized the increased cleanliness of New York, due to enlightened methods, and showed how street cleaning could be made self-supporting by the scientific preparation of refuse for cementing, for fertilizer and the like. In closing, Mr. Woodbury said that it was chiefly the indolent rich who were the real cause of our municipal degradation. The lecture was followed by an informal discussion...