Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Henry Cabot Lodge delivered the sixth and last one of the series of lectures on the professions. His subject was the "Uses and Responsibilities of Leisure." He spoke for forty minutes in a direct and agreeable way. His apt illustrations and stories proved very entertaining to the audience...
...enthusiastic audience filled Boylston Hall to overflowing last night to hear Prof. Trealease deliver his lecture on the fertilization of flowers. Prof. Trelease had a thorough control of his subject and held the attention of the audience for an hour and a half; he spoke in a clear voice, and was ably aided by Mr. Huntington who kindly volunteered to manage the stereopticon which Prof. Cook generously lent for the occasion. Although the lecture was a thoroughly scientific one, it was not at all too abstruse to be be followed by the novices in the audience...
...affirmative by Mr. J. M. Proctor, '89, and for the negative by Mr. G. P. Hobson, '86; it was closed for the affirmative by Mr. J. M. Proctor, '89, and for the negative by Mr. J. W. Richardson, '86. When thrown open to the house the following gentlemen spoke: for the affirmative, Coulson, Sp., Moors, '86, Robinson, '87, Palmer, Sp., Ramsay, Sp., McAffee, Sp., Shaughnessy, L. S. Sternbergh, '87, Duane, '88, Drew '89, Mahaney, '88, Kelley, '88; for the negative, Page, '88, Currier, '87, F. B's. Williams, '88, Gow, V. S., Merriam, '86, Hamilton, '87, Bronson, Sp., Bolster...
...debate as a whole was a trifle lukewarm, the only stirring speeches coming from the Irish side of the house, and it is only fair to state that they spoke in a way that did their cause credit. The negative confined their remarks to legal quibbles on the separation of the grand British Empire, and offered some able legal arguments in favor of their theories; but they rather stultified themselves by urging that the Irish were now unfit, would perhaps always be unfit to govern themselves; that they did not wish to govern themselves; that they wanted independence...
...spoke of President Eliot's proof that at present under our elective system the students are not likely to specialize their work overmuch. He furthermore takes up the other side of the matter, and shows quite conclusively that few follow incoherent and aimless courses. Upon submitting to three experts his tables showing the studies of every member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, two out of these three men (not always the same two) agreed upon only twenty-one cases of seemingly inconsecutive choices out of the whole number of three hundred and fifty; but all three agreed only...