Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hannibal Hamlin spoke to college students in Maine recently, strongly advising them to practice extemporaneous speaking. He thinks the value of this acquirement in a public man cannot be over-estimated...
Prof. Kovacs, who spoke in chapel Sunday, has come to this country to represent the Transylvanian Unitarian churches at the Saratoga conference. A reception is to be given him by Unitarian churches of Boston tomorrow evening...
...Salvini's acting and the perfect pathos of his whole representation of the tottering, grand old king, dozens of people came away feeling no more kinship with the woes of "Lear" than they would with some fate-driven hero of Greek drama. In fact, many admitted this parallel, and spoke of feeling something akin to the remote admiration that they felt for the OEdipus of Mr. Riddle when first presented to them at Cambridge, a few seasons...
This is but another step towards the entire abandonment of the freshman required work of which we spoke a few days since. It has always seemed very unjust to many that the freshman year, which is entirely taken up with required work, a great deal of which may be distasteful and onerous to most men, should count so much more than any other subsequent year. As a result a man who received a low mark for his freshman year's work felt no great inclination to study harder afterwards in the hope of bettering his degree, as he felt himself...
...about seventy men. Mr. Hayes acted as secretary in the absence of Mr. Nichols, class secretary. The president, Mr. Hubbard, stated that the meeting had been called to take action upon the crew, and laid the matter before the meeting as the business of the evening. Mr. Hammond spoke at length, deploring the situation of affairs, and reviewing the previous record of '83 as a boating class. He also explained why the 12th of May had been selected for the date of the race, saying that the two lower classes advocated that day, that the juniors were in favor...