Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...filled last evening by an audience of the best people of Cambridge and many students from the college. Mr. Longfellow, after giving a short account of the work Senator Dawes is now trying to accomplish in Congress, introduced Walter Baptiste, an Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe, who spoke on "What will you do with the Indian." He gave a vivid picture of life in Dacotah and spoke of the influence for good which graduates of such schools as the Hampton Institute are exerting on their own people. He appealed for more education and for separate reservations among...
Daniel Fiery Cloud was next introduced, and spoke earnestly in the cause of his people. He is a full-blooded Dacotah Indian, and spoke in the Dacotah language. Miss Collins, who has been fourteen years missionary among the Indians for the Congregational Society, acted as interpreter...
...Sargent spoke before a large audience last night in behalf of elocution as a collegiate course of study. He began by giving some statistics of the study of elocution in this country, showing that his art had already gained a firm foothold, and was rapidly advancing to the position of science. Elocution with us is only about fifty years old, less than twenty-five years in the colleges. There are now in America 3,000 teachers and 150,000 students of elocution. More college men are needed in the profession to raise it to its proper ranks. Very...
...following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Mahany, '88, Hobson, '86, Thayer, '89; negative, Williams, L. S., Sternburgh, '87, Darling, L. S., W. L. Currier, '87. Robinson, L. S., Reisner...
...conclusion, the speaker said that more than anything else the dramatic writer must be sincere; that sincerity should especially be the watch-word of young authors, for no element in an audience is more important or harder to move than that of sincerity. Mr. Howard spoke in a moderate tone of voice with no attempts at elocutionary effects, but his contrasts of pathos and humor were carefully chosen, and were greatly enjoyed by his hearers...