Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course in the next regatta by lines of flagged buoys, at intervals of an eighth of a mile. Amendment offered by Harvard to row the next race with coxswains was carried without discussion, and the discussion came in on the original motion as amended. Mr. Gunster of Williams spoke strongly in favor of coxswains, while Mr. Cook of Yale opposed them as too sudden an innovation. Harvard urged the proposition, which was finally assented to by a vote of 6 to 4, - Yeas, Columbia, Harvard, Trinity, Williams, Princeton, Brown; Nays, Yale, Trinity, Wesleyan, Cornell...
...after cordially welcoming the guests, proposed as the first toast of the evening, "Our Alma Mater." To this Professor Bocher replied briefly, speaking of the future of our University and of our paper. Professor Palmer was the second to speak, in response to a toast to the Faculty. He spoke with much warmth of the need of a better understanding between professor and student, pointing out the fact that the feeling which still exists, though yearly diminishing, is due quite as much to the student's idea that his instructor is not a student like himself, only at an advanced...
...behalf of the Institute. Mr. Wheeler gave an account of the work of the Athen&aeum during the present year, and in conclusion, drawing his inspiration from "Req. Physics," presented a very pleasing picture of the two societies shining as sister stars in the College firmament. Mr. Bradford spoke of the unusual good feeling that had existed between the societies during the present year, and hoped that it might continue hereafter...
...Toast-Master then gave the fourth toast, "The Literary Interest," and called on Mr. R. S. Culbreth. Mr. Culbreth's reply was witty and enthusiastic. Taking novels and the novelist as a theme, he spoke of the great advantage of a course of general reading in college. In reply to the fifth toast, "The Boating Interest," Mr. D. C. Bacon gave a short statement of the plans of the University Crew for the coming summer, and said that although the class had been somewhat unfortunate in losing a good many of its boating men, still "seventy-six" in all probability...
...advised young journalists to regard matter more than form, and maintained that any one with something to say could express it. As an alumnus of the College, and an editor of distinction himself, his remarks were listened to with great interest. He was followed by Professor William Everett, who spoke of some of the peculiarities of student life in the English Universities, alluding to the manner in which students there eat together in their own rooms as worthy of imitation here. In regard to oratory, boating, etc., in which we are apt to consider ourselves far behind English students...