Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vote on the merits of the question was 37 for Maine law and 46 for the Massachusetts. The vote on the merits of the argument of the principal disputants stood 45 to 40. The vote on the merits of the whole argument stood 37 to 26. The following gentlemen spoke: Merriam, Wilson, Prentiss, McDuffie, McArthur, Gifford, Barnes, Richardson, Carrier, Libby, Conant, Eaton, Sanders. After the debate, Mr. Hansin brought forward resolutions on the death of Greenough Thayer, which were adopted. Mr. Eaton suggested that instead of the meeting being opened by speeches by all four of the principal disputants...
...hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Medical School and the opening of the new Medical School took place yesterday. The exercises began at eleven o'clock in Huntington Hall in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology building, with an address by President Eliot. President Eliot spoke of the present condition of the school, contrasting it with its small beginning. In speaking of the support the faculty had received from outsiders, he said: "The school has received by gift and bequest $320,000 in ten years; it has secured itself in the centre of the city for many years...
...spoke of wrongs too long endured...
...their greatness. The record speaks for itself. Although I intend to select only graduates of Harvard, yet I cannot pass by without noticing the founder of our university, John Harvard, of whom Edward Everett, in an oration delivered in 1826 upon the erection of a monument in his honor, spoke as follows...
...speak it. The President of one of our New England colleges, in a lecture delivered in this city last Sunday, said : "Here then is the consequences in the worst possible form of it." And again : "Not only is this so manifested as that philosophers see it." He also spoke of India as "a province that is not profitable except there shall be the cultivation of opinion." He was probably in a condition similar to that of the actor who knew his part so well that he forgot...