Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regular meeting of the Harvard Odontological Society was held at Young's on Thursday evening. Dr. H. M. Clifford spoke on "Materials for Dental Office and Laboratory...
...Warner, L. S. spoke first on the negative. Nobody supports the spoils syste; it is felt to be bad, but how shall the difficulty be met? The question under consideration is as pleasing to the ordinary young man as the smile of his best girl. How well "efficient officials" sounds. A large number of democrats are efficient, if not, the fear of removal will make them so. To be sure, there are the republicans who held the offices four years ago. They are just as experienced, but to put them in the places of democrats would be rotation, and that...
...Thayer, '89, spoke next on the affirmative. A government is like a great farm. The owner chooses the head farmers to carry out his ideas of the best interests of the estate. If a new owner comes in who does not believe in the methods of the former landlord, it is proper for him to select new servants to carry out his ideas. These men must know their business, and, besides, must be interested in the success of the owner. Under these, however, are the laborers who perform routine work. Is it wise to turn these men out even...
...number of the Negroes and Indians, pupils of the Hampton school, spoke, last evening in Shepard Memorial Chapel. Perry, one of the Shawnee tribe, spoke in favor of giving the Indian a chance to civilize himself. The Indian remains in barbarism because, shut away from the world in reservations, he has never had any opportunities for improvement...
Professors Charles Eliot Norton, H. A. Hagen, and Francis G. Peabody, spoke on the temperance question last evening at the Prospect St. Church, Cambridgeport...