Word: spoke
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...Sherrard Billings '80 of Groton School was introduced by W. M. Crane, president of the Christian Association. Mr. Billings spoke of the changes in Harvard since his undergraduate days and especially of its growth from a college into a university. The greater size and scope of the university imposes new responsibilities up on men entering it; they are expected not simply to learn and acquire, but to give, to the life of the University and to the individual lives of men about them, their best physical, mental and spiritual ability...
Professor Lowell spoke in Sever 11 last night on the elective system and the choice of studies. He said in part...
...them in the charge of a permanent organization. Thus they came to be a part of the Memorial Society's work. They have always consisted of singing, led by the Glee Club, and of an address by a graduate who had himself served in the Civil War. Major Higginson spoke the first year, and he has been followed by Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, Judge Holmes, Colonel Hallowell, Professor Shaler, Professor Hollis, and the Honorable John Read...
...virtues shown by Harvard men at all times of public stress since the college was established; and that this commemoration would come most appropriately from the present students. The Memorial Society believes that the nobility of these men has still its message to speak to us as it spoke to our older brothers in '98. and that we can hear it most clearly perhaps from the lips of one that is still young with...
...construction of the proposed Charles River dam near Craigie Bridge. Mr. J. J. Storrow '85, who represented the petitioners, explained that nothing was asked for save a thorough investigation of the question. Mr. Cox, chairman of the Cambridge Park Commission, and Mr. J. J. Fitzgerald of Boston also spoke in favor of constructing the dam. The committee adjourned the hearing at noon without giving a decision...