Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell visited the camp at the height of the season and spoke on the value of military preparedness...
Three other phases of the war were touched on by Mr. Rhodes. He spoke a little of the finances of the country in 1864, and of the "debauch of flat money." He also dealt on Lincoln's unfriendly relations with Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter's withdrawal and subsequent appointment as Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court. And finally he considered Lincoln's high-minded plan of 1864: of paying to the slave states four million dollars for the giving up of their slaves, and the formation of peace. But there was no one else...
Almost exactly a year ago President Lowell spoke in the Union to a body of undergraduates on a subject directly opposite to that of last night. At the time of the excitement over the Mexican situation, the policy of keeping cool, and "keeping our shirts on" was freely advocated. Now we are to take a necessary precaution when the war cloud is nearer than ever before. It is the desire of everyone that mankind be so organized that war will be an impossibility. But to be prepared is no more provoking war, than it would be to abolish the police...
...Wood, Yale '10, who visited several of the battle-fronts in Europe recently, spoke in the Union last night on the work of the American Ambulance Corps, in France, and the necessity for supporting it. By saving delay in getting the wounded to the hospitals the corps saves a great many lives...
...Union last evening the following officers were elected for 1915-16: President, Charles Benham Chrisman 16, of Ortonville, Minn.; vice-president, William Hodgson 2L., of Minneapolis, Minn.; treasurer, Norman Percy Johnson '17, of Faribault, Minn.; and secretary, Francis Trow Spaulding '17, of Minneapolis, Minn. Assistant Professor E. G. Martin spoke...