Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...took place in Sever 11 on Monday evening. Mr. E. C. Webster, president of the League, was in the chair. An audience of about sixty listened to excellent talks on the principles of the society from Prof. F. G. Peabody, Rev. E. E. Hale and Mr. Cummings. Dr. Hale spoke of the almost uniformity of the rule that it was the abstaining portion of men who achieved success in all walks of life, and especially in the department of literature. He then humorously alluded to the future meeting in 1936 of the class of '86 over in some room...
...Sodality holds its first meeting to-morrow for the examination of candidates for the coming year. Every upperclassman recalls how prosperous the society was in every regard last year. Its successes, musical and financial, were entirely unprecedented. Everybody and those who are best able to judge music in particular, spoke favorably of the high degree of perfection which the orchestra achieved in its rendition of some of the more ambitious compositions which it performed. The bulk of the material of the orchestra is now of two years standing, as the club has lost only about seven men since...
...members of the anniversary celebration committee were chosen as follows: the president, Mr. Dexter, and Messrs. C. H. Taylor and Burton. The three marshals for the celebration were elected together, Messrs. Hunnewell, Amory and Harding. During the meeting Mr. Peabody spoke a few words in behalf of the freshman lacrosse. The parliamentary bearing and business-like manner of the president were very favorably commented on by the upperclassmen present...
...portions of the New Testament and a prayer by Dr. Mackenzie. Dr. Peabody then ascended the pulpit and began his sermon on the text Joel ii 28: "And it shall come to pass that our old men shall see visions and our young men shall dream dreams." The speaker spoke with great earnestness of the important place which this world of ideality should have among any body of broad minded men, and said that its presence was not lacking amongst us now. "These are the signs which shall mark the coming of the spirit of God, and which...
Matthew Arnold delivered a lecture last Tuesday before the Univ. of Pa. The lecture was a comparison of the French and German systems of education with that of England, and was by no means complimentary to the latter. The lecturer spoke in especially high terms of the German system of religious instruction...