Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wilbert B. Smith, of the International Y. M. C. A. Committee, who spoke at the Christian Association meeting on Sunday evening, will be at Phillips Brooks House today from 9 to 12 and from 1 to 5 o'clock to talk with any men who wish...
...injuries would not permit him to fight as hard as the other players. That is the kind of man whom Harvard wants. Professor Barrett Wendell '77, of the department of English, Professor H. S. White '73, of the department of German, and J. W. Hallowell '01, of Milton, spoke briefly of their experiences in athletics. Professor White compared modern baseball with the game he played in the seventies. In those days there were no gloves, masks, or training tables. The teams today have many advantages and should be much better...
Coach P. D. Haughton '99 spoke of the place of the Varsity Club in College. He told of the former trials of the teams in their eating accommodations. The club is now some distance from Soldiers Field, but it is far more convenient than the Yale training quarters. The Varsity Club should mean a bright future for Harvard athletics. The athletes were formerly isolated and those who did not belong to social clubs had little chance for fellowship. This was a great evil and the direct benefits were apparent when the teams moved into their rooms on Holyoke street. There...
...Fisher '12, of Newton Centre, spoke of the growth of the club since he entered College and in behalf of the undergraduate body expressed his gratitude to the men who had made the new building possible. The undergraduates appreciate it and realize what the club will mean. It will give the men an opportunity to know and to help one another. It is an experiment, but it should prove a great success. Captain Fisher said that he was glad that there would be a permanent monument to Burr, since he was one of the finest men who ever graduated from...
...labor legislation for the equalization of risk between employer and workman and again in the case of compensation for injury to employee. He pointed out that the lowering of the wage limit was due to the entrance of women in to the wage-earning classes. In closing Mr. Woods spoke of vocation as a field for moral enterprise. A great opportunity, he said for the building up of humanity was to be found in the latent idealism which, although hidden in most people, needed only an awakening touch to reveal...