Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When the debate was thrown open to the house, the following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Messrs. Duane, '88, Astor, S. S., Williams, '88, Sternbergh, '87, Jennings, L. S. S., McArthur, '85, Mahany, '88, Davis, '85, Hansen, '85, and Whittemore, '85. On the ballot on the results of the debate as a whole, the affirmative received 13 votes, and the negative...
Twenty-five men attended the meeting for Mott Haven candidates. President Atkinson said a few words of the need of faithful work, and also of the advantages of being a member of the team; Baker, '86, spoke to the runners about starting...
...last meeting of the Historical Society, Professor Emerton, in an informal lecture, spoke of the methods of study and instruction in history. There are three methods now pursued by instructors, which are suitable for students of different ages. First, by imparting facts in a vivid and very interesting manner. This method would only apply to children in the primary schools. Second, by paying more attention to the philosophical part of history, showing the relation between different events, and the bearing of particular instances on general laws. This method could be profitably carried on in high schools and colleges. Third...
...friend as he cried, "Ah, the Eleven!" He told us that the foot-ball interests of Tufts were "screaming," as he said, and that they bade fair to swallow up the other sports in the same manner as they had been themselves swallowed at our own college. Our friend spoke of the curriculum of Tufts as excellent, and the teaching thorough. He did not say, however, that the students ate in the chapel or that some of the professors roomed in the gymnasium. He felt sorry for us that we were not in Tufts, and pointed out the excellencies...
...extremely small attendance of students at the Symphony concert spoke eloquently for the industrious condition of the university at present...