Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...John Jay Chapman '84 spoke informally in the Fogg Lecture Room last night, on "Public Opinion." Mr. Chapman began by referring to the corrupt conditions prevailing in New York since 1871. Little by little, reform work has been taken up, at first, almost unconsciously, recently, with clear purpose and understanding. In former times people thought that their political duties ended with a little bribery of the tax collector; they never cared for whom they voted. Now, the whole system of modern reform is analogous to the religious reforms of the Middle Ages, and men go into politics for the sake...
...addition to these works, Villiers de I' Isle Adam also wrote "Eve Future," which is dedicated to dreamers as well as to scoffers. M. de Regnier discussed this work fully and also spoke of the belief of its author in the reality of the idea. For most of his life Villiers was in great poverty, and was almost unknown. Indifferent to his sufferings, however, he was able to rise above the miseries of his life, and proudly to live in the magical illusion of his dream...
...William S. Rainsford, of St. George's Church, New York, addressed the University Religious Meeting last night on the theme of "Courage." He spoke in part as follows: Only the man who sees life sanely and sees it whole possesses true courage. It is a necessary quality in the development of every race. In its primitive form courage is only brutal, but it is this brute force and brute courage from which higher and more refined virtues spring. Brute courage reaches a certain point where it does not satisfy; it must be allied to faith. There are several checks upon...
...Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the United States Division of Forestry, spoke informally in the Fogg Lecture Room last night on "Forestry as a Profession." He said in part: The science of forestry began in France about the time of the Revolution, spread to Germany, and soon after became a profession. Forestry is in itself purely economic; it has to do with making masses of trees useful to man. Upon its results depends to a great extent the industrial future of the United States; over fifty per cent. of our country's area must eventually come under its activities. The great...
...Endicott Peabody spoke of Phillips Brooks as a friend. His simplicity invited people, who might have felt a certain reticence in going to other great men, to seek him as a friend. Bishop Brooks was not interested in talking about himself, but he poured out his whole soul in his preaching. His greatness was in his faith in God and his faith in Heaven. His personality was such an inspiration that one seemed filled with a new life after talking with him. He loved young men and boys, he loved Harvard, and loved to talk of any plan for Harvard...