Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...started the rowing season last spring. This large number is extremely gratifying and should contain promising material. It should not discourage, however, other men from reporting. Coach Haines, University Crew Captain Wendell Davis '21, Dr. Paul Withington '10, a former oarsman, and Manager Amory Houghton '21, briefly spoke to the men relative to the plans for the season and to the organization of the crews...
...little over fifty years ago President Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg of those who had so recently fought with arms in their hands against the Constitution of the United States, and his words were of goodness and mercy for those who had been his deadly enemies. President Wilson has been likened to Lincoln frequently. He, too, has spoken at various times and places of persons opposed to him, particularly of those senators who are maintaining the Constitution against the new personally conducted League of Nations, and thus presuming to block his ends. It began last February, after the evening...
Thirty candidates for the University cross-country team reported to Coach Farrell yesterday afternoon in the Locker Building. Besides the coach, H. J. Jacques '10 and George King '19, former captains of cross-country teams; spoke to the squad regarding the plans for the coming season. It is hoped that more candidates will report today...
...year ago tomorrow at the Memorial Day exercises in memory of Harvard men who had fallen in the war President Lowell, expressing the feeling of the anxious audience, spoke of that occasion as "the darkest day since the United States entered the war." With the German hordes pouring over the Marne, the allied armies apparently unable to give any adequate resistance, civilization seemed very much in the balance. And Memorial Day took on a new significance. Instead of a time-honored function to commemorate the dead of the Civil and the Spanish Wars,--a memory of battles which somehow lacked...
...were elected. His address was devoted particularly to an explanation of the strategy of the campaign of the spring of 1918 on the western front, and he also emphasized the importance of Anglo-American co-operation in the future. Three members of the club who saw service overeas also spoke...