Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Mr. Herkomer spoke in his lecture on the necessity of a large income for artists, in order that their home surroundings might be of such nature that their genius should be stimulated to better work, rather than be fettered by these same surroundings. This idea applies equally well to students at college. The quality of the work done by every man is affected by the nature of the circumstances under which he lives. A bare and cold garret may be in theory an excellent place to do one's best literary work, but in practise the theory...
...following gentlemen spoke from the floor: affirmative, Shattuck, '87, Frye, Sp., Dean, '88, Buck, '87; negative, Porter, '89, Bronson, Sp., J. W. Richardson, '86, Thayer, '89, Hammerslough, '88, McAfee, Sp., Platt, '88, Poppleton, '87, Currier, '87, Duane, '88, Chenoweth, '88, Rich, '87, Williams, '88, Page, '85. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole resulted, affirmative, 3; negative...
After an address of welcome by the president of the Brown Association, President Robinson spoke of the responsibility which rests upon a member of a Christian organization. He was followed by Mr. L. D. Wishard, the inter-collegiate college secretary of the Y. M. C. A. who spoke of the intercollegiate Y. M. C. A. movement. Saturday forenoon was given to papers by various delegates, followed by discussions on the reception of new students, the advantages of an association room, the prayer meeting, the Bible training class, and the missionary meeting. The Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., of Boston...
After a short meeting among the students Sunday morning, the delegates attended services at the city churches. In the afternoon Prof. Lincoln, of Brown, gave an address on Christian consecration. The closing exercises were held in the First Baptist Church. Mr. Wishard spoke of the world-wide extent of this Christian work for young men. Reports were then given by delegates of the religious life in their respective colleges. The pastor of the church made a few remarks about the claims of the ministry as a profession. At the close of this meeting the delegates held farewell exercises...
...During my stay in Boston last spring, men engaged in legal practice spoke to me of the great value of the law-teaching at Harvard University. Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Father of the Massachusetts Bar, told me that the three-years' course at Harvard was equal to seven years' work in an office. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Eliot, President of the university, spoke to the same effect. Dr. Eliot related with pardonable pride that at a recent dinner of old Harvard men a prominent young advocate had declared that, when he was a student, he had often...