Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Faxon '20, spoke next and emphasized the eleven's need of whole-hearted backing. "There is very little that I can say except to repeat what Coach Wallace has just said to you. Although football is only a game, it is well worth playing hard. The individual members of the team have been playing hard, but much of their work has been nullified by a lack of teamwork. It has been the outstanding fault in all the games so far. A common bond of sympathy is what is needed to make the eleven men play as a unit. I think...
Last evening Bishop Lawrence spoke to the Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room. Out of a class of 550, 75 men were present. We realize that the hour examinations are here and that much has to be done in a hurry which should have been done long ago. Such an excuse to offer for not hearing one of the great figures in America's religious work, however, is ridiculous. The sponsors of these weekly talks for Freshmen have secured the most brilliant speakers obtainable. They have set the time of each meeting from 7 until 7.35 o'clock. In addition...
Samuel Ybargoyen of Uruguay spoke very interestingly on the habits and customs of his native country...
Major Higginson spoke to the Freshmen yesterday evening on "Sacrifice and Service." Dean Yeomans, introducing Major Higginson, spoke of the comfort and advice he had received from him in the trying days of the Spanish...
...Trustees in expelling Professors Dana and Cattell and causing Professor Beard's resignation. The meeting was addressed by former instructor Durant of the Philosophy Department who said in pant: "Professor Beard has offered his life and career as a sacrifice to the freedom of speech." Several students also spoke, one saying the meeting was not in the best interests of Columbia. A Freshman struck the true spirit of the occasion when he said that the students had met to protest against the action of the Trustees, and that the affair was purely an academic matter. Proposals for framing resolutions...