Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will a bequest of $10,000,000 to Harvard unless the connection of Professor Muensterberg with the University was severed at once. The reason for this action of Major Wiener's was found in the general tone of some of Professor Muensterberg's statements in which he spoke freely in defense of Germany. The decisive action of the Corporation in refusing to accept Major Weiner's offer was the first which has been officially taken in the matter...
...Study of Coral Reefs in the South Pacific, Professor W. M. Davis attended during August the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne. At Sydney he spoke before the Section of Geography on the "Coast of New Caledonia" and before the Section of Geology on "A New Evidence for Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs." In the latter part of August and the first part of September, he made a short visit to the Great Barrier Reefs...
...Richard Cabot '89, of the Medical School, spoke on another branch of the work the personal benefits received. He dwelt on the necessity of thought and care in choosing a profession, and on the value of social service as a man's employment...
...difficulties he had experienced in comprehending the machinery of the city government. He urged all members of the University to devote at least a portion of their time to a study of the method by which the business of their own communities was done. Professor Lewis J. Johnson, who spoke next declared that while America had undoubtedly the best set of political ideals, it was only gradually that the machinery could be perfected for the fulfillment of those ideals. It is essential that the problem of perfecting this machinery be fairly faced and the aid secured of the best ability...
President Lowell declared that the chief object of the Freshman dormitories is to put the first year men into the position and ways of college men at the outset. He, too, spoke of the war in Europe, urging all to realize their responsibilities...