Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Ingersoll Lectureship was established by the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll of Keene, New Hampshire, in 1893. It was provided that a lecture upon "The Immortality of Man" should be delivered and published annually. Last year Mr. W. S. Bigelow '71 spoke on "Immortality as Conceived and Taught in Buddhism...
...proceeded to Dallas, Tex., reaching there on February 20 after short stops at Nashville and Memphis. Having visited the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, President Eliot went to Austin, where he was the guest of President S. E. Mezes '90, of the University of Texas. While there he spoke before both houses of the state legislature and addressed the local Business League on "Municipal Government." At San Antonio, on February 26, he was present at the dinner of the Association of Northern and Eastern College Men in the Southwest. After spending four days at Houston and Galveston he left...
...March 30 President Eliot was a guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Washington, at which glowing tributes to his achievements and ideals were paid by President Taft and ex-Secretary of State Root. The following evening he spoke at the dinner of the Harvard Club of Maryland in Baltimore. For the last few days he has been the guest of Mr. F. c. Woodman '88, head-master of the Morristown School at Morristown, N. J. On Saturday evening he was the guest of the Harvard Club of New Jersey at its annual dinner...
Professor Lefranc spoke of the greatness of Moliere, whose name stands in the front rank of the world's great men of literature. Today he is more popular than ever before, both in France and elsewhere. His optimism is the trait that bears the closest resemblance to the American national character...
...Cable '09 spoke of the opporbrium on scholarship which unquestionably existed or had existed. If such marks of interest as the present occasion had been more frequent, the Faculty would not have had to ask a College committee to investigate this evil. As a reason, it seemed evident that when all interest was devoted to athletics, scholarship should be left out. Undergraduates, however, are coming to realize more and more the close relation between vigorous effort in College and success in after-life. This is the attitude which will do away with any opprobrium...