Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Longfellow then introduced Prof. Thayer, of the law school, who spoke on the Dawes bill. This bill gives the Indian the right to hold land and also the right of citizenship. The president is authorized to have the reservation surveyed and a part allotted to each member of the tribe. The Indian may be compelled to accept the land and cannot part with it for twenty-five years. The remaining land is bought by the government and sold to out-siders and money is placed in the U. S. treasury to pay for the education of the tribe. The other...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In yesterday's issue you spoke of the prospects of the new year and urged each one to do all that he could toward bringing victory to Harvard this year. In the last two years Yale has been victorious everywhere, and why? Be cause she does not put off until the last moment what ought to be done just as soon as the college year opens. Look at her crew, the candidates returned to college last week and devoted the last half of the Christmas recess to work. They spend the entire Easter recess there in training...
...following men spoke from the floor: Affirmative-Williams, '88; Page, '88; Green, '89. Negative-Osborn, L. S.; Pinkham. L. S.; Coulson, Sp.; Gay, '88; Naumburg, '89; Bates, '90; Stebbins, '90; Beckwith, Sp. The vote on the merits of the question was: Affirmative, 12; negative, 15. On the merits of the debate by principal disputants: Affirmative, 4; negative, 27. On the merits of the debate as a whole: Affirmative 5; negative...
...high-toned classmates, if he is a man of real worth; but think of the hard and bitter experience he must first go through, even if he possesses only the average amount of sensitiveness. I think the orator of the senior class dinner uttered a real truth when he spoke of the increase of class feeling in the senior year. But to have to fight up to that year, through the snobbishness and condescendingness of men with whom he may be thrown in his work, is a pretty hard experience...
...Yale alumni banquet in New York on last Friday evening, 100 members of the Association were present. Stagg, Beecher, Darm and Rogers spoke of the athletics of the college in the past and the prospects in the future...