Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...held the pass at Thermopylx?" demanded the teacher. And the editor's boy at the foot of the class spoke up and said, "Father, I reckon; he holds an annual on every road in the country that runs a passenger train...
...recent lecture delivered in Brooklyn, Dr. Sargent spoke of the progress that the Germans, French and Scots are making in athletic sports and gymnastic exercises. "We need in America," said the doctor, "a happy combination of all the systems of athletic development as practiced in these countries-the German for strength, the English and Scotch for sport, and the French for grace. The Western States adopt for the most part the German method, the Eastern and Middle States hail with delight the English athletic games and sports, while in New England the French calisthenics are popular. Each system is good...
...speech of Col. Codman of the board of overseers was of the most importance. He spoke in part as follows...
...negative. Messrs. E. T. Sanford. '85, and W. B. Scofield, '87, then closed the regular debate for the affirmative and negative respectively. When the debate was opened to the house, some of the best speakers in college took the floor. Among them, Currier, '87, Coffin, '85, and Roundy, '85, spoke for the negative; and Fraser, '86, Hansen, '85, Hobson, '86, Rich, '87, Hoar, L. S., Saunders, '84, and Jennings, '86, for the affirmative. The majority of the audience as well as speakers, were on the side of the negative, as all the votes showed. Messrs. Hoar, Saunders and Scofield, received...
General Gordon in his lecture Tuesday evening spoke warmly of the ability and character of his adversary, General "Stonewall" Jackson...