Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After a summary of the various professors who had been appointed from time to time, President Eliot spoke of the affiliation with the Andover Theological School. A definite plan for this move was drawn up in 1908. This union greatly increased the opportunities for theological study for students are credited with courses taken in another institutions. A similar agreement was formed with the Episcopal Seminary located in this city. A few years later the Boston University and the Newton Theological Schools were also allied...
...informal dinner was held in the Assembly Room of the Union, Rev. Professor F. G. Peabody '69, presiding. Dean Fenn, representing the School, spoke of its achievement. "The number of graduates, 1,500 during the past century, is not in itself great. The Andover Seminary, during the same period of time, graduated over 3,500 men. But the number of men who have been heard from after they have left the School is remarkable." Of the 500 men now living connected with the School from 1876-96 one in seven has been eminent enough to be mentioned...
...relation of social service to the University was clearly brought out by the speakers at the annual conference of social workers at Phillips Brooks House last evening. Professor W. Z. Ripley of the Economics Department spoke of the labor question and its connection with the college undergraduate. "When you get in business you are going to come into contact with the unions. Most people are prejudiced against the unions and it is your place while you are young to begin to size up the situation. Now you are unprejudiced and therefore you have a better opportunity of making up your...
...Lewis 1L spoke of his personal experiences in settlement work, and W. C. Morgan '17 laid special emphasis on the need of educating the immigrants in Cambridge...
...many men come to Harvard with the prep-school' notion of success," said Professor Bliss Perry, of the English Department. "The successes you may attain here, which may give you prominence aren't important. The decisions you make within yourselves are the turning points of your lives." Professor Perry spoke of the chance of service offered by the Phillips Brooks House as one of the most valuable and important of college activities. Speaking of the social side of college life, Professor Perry said, "Too many of you get your pleasure without earning it. Don't take your enjoy-men here...