Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...honorary ushers. The Right Reverend William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts presided. The addresses were full of interesting anecdotes of Dana as a man of letters, a lawyer, a writer on international law, an anti-slavery leader, and as a citizen, and Bishop Lawrence, in introducing the other speakers, spoke briefly of Dana as a churchman...
...Choate spoke of "Dana as a Citizen, Lawyer, and Writer on International Law." Mr. Dana's first venture in politics, in his thirty-second year, he said, marked clearly his independence of spirit, his love of the right, and determination to maintain it at whatever cost, and his clear foresight into the political future. He hated the Abolitionists, who were altogether too unconventional for him, but he made his debut in political life as chairman of the Free Soil Meetings at the Tremont Temple. He declared: 'I am a Free Soiler because I am (who should...
Professor Perry spoke of "Richard Henry Dana as a Man of Letters." "The popular impression of Richard Henry Dana is that he was a man of one book, 'Two Years Before the Mast.' Such impressions are not always infallible, and yet the offhand, instinctive judgment upon which they rest is usually right enough for all practical purposes. In Dana's case the popular verdict is not likely to be reversed. It is one of the ironies of literature that this son of a poet, inheriting so much that was finest in the old New England culture, a pupil of Emerson...
Lieutenant-Governor Grafton Delaney Cushing '85 spoke to about two hundred members in the Union last evening, on the subject of politics in general. A large number of the members of the Republican Club were present...
Lord and Lady Aberdeen have only recently arrived in this country. They spoke before a large audience in Tremont Temple on Wednesday night. They are planning to give a series of lectures in various parts of the country, to interest Americans in the cause of Ireland, and to raise money to aid in the betterment of social conditions in Ireland. Their tour will probably extend to the Pacific Coast, where they have been invited to the Panama-Pacific Exposition...