Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...could center their activities in the Union under the proposed system. The unfortunate effects of the keen competition of these many societies are seen many times. For instance, on April 8, M. Leroux, the editor of the "Paris Matin" and one of the most brilliant men of France today, spoke at the Union. He was in America engaged on a special mission to President Wilson. On the same evening, Mayor Curley spoke in Emerson Hall under the auspices of the Speakers' Club. This was not due to any lack of efficiency in the system of arranging dates, but simply represents...
...affirmative rebuttal attempted to show that the Filipinos demanded independence and that they were competent to progress without our aid. The men spoke in the following order...
...operation with the Student Volunteer Band, many medical men returned from other countries have been secured to speak at the Board meetings on Sunday afternoons. On March 9 Dr. P. W. Harrison of Arabia, for several months this year an assistant surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital, spoke to about thirty men at at 5 o'clock meeting at the School on "Some Attractive Locations for Surgeons." The address was very instructive and interesting. The Committee was also able to arrant for engagements for Dr. Harrison to speak at the Boston University School of Medicine, the New England Baptist Hospital...
Bringing the discussion down to more specific problems, Mr. Walton A. Green '04 spoke on "The Federalization of the Militia." He pointed out the difficulties of having an efficient army, when it is divided into 48 units, and he showed the uselessness of a militia to a state itself which is paying for its upkeep. "The police power should be exercised by a mounted constabulary which is capable of doing so, and the army should be inside the control of the federal government where it can be efficiently maintained...
...Nichols '86, who spoke last, showed the chances of a student's "making good" if he should enter surgery. "Surgery is hard work," he said. "The surgeon is the carpenter and mechanic of the physician. He comes into the closest relations to his fellow...