Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following spoke from the floor: aff., Griffin, '88; Shattuck, '87; Bigelow, '87; Thayer, 89; McAfee, Sp.; Currier, '87; Hosmer. '87; Hunt, L. S. Neg., Garrison. '88; E. Norton. L. S.; Poppelton, '87; Davis, L. S.; Smith, L. S.; Mack, L. S. Messrs. Sanford and Saunders closed. The three votes on the merits of the questions; disputants, and debate were carried by the affirmative...
...Welsh spoke earnestly of the great need of the Indians for education; for clear titles to land and the privileges of holding land in severalty; above all, for law. The civil service rules should be applied to the choice of land agents and of all Indian officials. The spoils system is the cause of much of the present distress among the Indians, and should be abolished. The speaker closed with an earnest appeal to his hearers to give their personal attention and aid to these oppressed peoples...
Professor Painter, the Washington Agent of the Indian Rights Association was introduced by the chairman, and spoke in a very interesting and instructive manner on the injustice done by the Government to the Indians...
...Lanciani spoke last evening of the Police organizations of ancient and mediaeval Rome. He dwelt on the great hardships and dangers which these guardians of the peace were obliged to undergo. The streets of Rome were wholly without lights at night, and consequently were very favorable places for the operations of theives and foot-pads. The police, besides the ordinary duties of their office, were obliged to act as fire men. The frequency of disasterous fires in Rome is too well known to need comment. Mr. Lanciani closed his lecture as usual with appropriate stereopticon views...
...divided the lecture into three parts and spoke of the historical Novel, which received its first impulse from the work of Sir Walter Scott; the novel treating of social relations; and the Novellette...