Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner of the Brown University Alumni in New York, Friday night, Mr. George William Curtis spoke at length upon the progress of the modern improvements in the colleges...
...public meeting of the Total Abstinence League was held last evening in Sever 11, with an audience that was very good for Friday. Prof. F. G. Peabody was the first speaker. He spoke particularly of the work of the Law and Order League in Cambridge. He dwelt on the need of unity in all reforms and of united forces against common enemies. The need was felt in Cambridge, and finally a league was formed, merely for the enforcement of the laws relating to the liquor traffic. This league included men who were prohibitionists, licencists, extremists, moderatists, Democats and Republicans...
Some of the speeches made at the dinner of the New-York Harvard Club touching as they do upon vital topics connected with the university, should interest all. The first gentlemen introduced by the president of the club, Mr. Charles C. Beaman, was President Eliot, who spoke of Harvard substantially as follows...
...Princeton men. He said that if Harvard College should abolish Greek and Latin and prayers, as was proposed, American fathers would be obliged to send their sons to Princeton for the classics and religion, and to Yale for foot-ball. [Laughter.] The Hon. John P. Washburne, of Worcester, spoke briefly as a representative of the Harvard class of '53. He said that that class had given to Harvard its present president. As it was true that John Harvard founded Harvard College, is was equally true that Charles Eliot founded Harvard University...
Pres. Strong of the Society of Christian Brethren opened the meeting with a short address, and then called upon Dr. A. P. P. Peabody who delivered an address of welcome to the delegates. In closing he spoke as follows:- " I bid you all welcome in the name of our college, and, not in the name of the college, and, not in the name of the college alone, but in the name of all who have its interests at heart, and who are one with you in the cause that you are here to uphold...