Word: spokes
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Professor Muensterberg spoke for the German students and teachers of Boston in expressing their regard for Dr. Muck and their regrets at his departure. Philosophy and art both appeal to limited classes of people; music alone makes the universal appeal. New England has always been a Puritan district, into which the Germans are now introducing the aestheticism of their own scholarship. Professor Spalding spoke on the relations which have existed for several years between the University and the Orchestra. Harvard is endeavoring to produce a type of musician broadly educated as well as technically qualified, and to avoid giving...
President Eliot spoke informally last evening before the Education Club on "Teaching as a Vocation...
Esperanto was born, said M. Privat, in a little Prussian village where a boy named Zamenhof lived about the middle of the last century. This boy saw the need of a universal language because of strife and misunderstanding that arose between people of his native village who spoke four different languages. When he grew up, he formulated an artificial language, Esperanto, but met with little success until 21 years ago. Since then, interest in the new language has grown steadily, and today there are over 700 Esperanto societies and more than 400 magazines spreading the language over the world...
...address on "The Physical Needs of Scholars, Athletes and the Average Man" at New York during the holidays, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, physical director of the University, advanced the proposition that physical training be made a part of the regular curriculum. Dr. Sargent spoke before the Society of College Gymnasium Directors, at Columbia University...
Professor Peabody spoke of a certain reserve and dignity which surrounded Phillips Brooks, so that no man felt that he could call him an intimate friend, and yet, in his sermons, he gave his whole being to his hearers. No other man's sermons were ever wrought with such thought and care. They all went through three stages, the note-book, the compendium stage, and then the finished arrangement, so that his intellectual preparation and logic made a track, as it were, for the rush of his rhetoric. Complete as was his plan and outline, he spoke with such spontaneity...