Word: spokes
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...Saturday night President Eliot spoke to the members of the Harvard Canadian Club and their guests from the British Empire Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He paid a glowing tribute to the splendid work being done by the Ministry of Labor in Canada, under the direction of Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, a former member of the club, and a former student in the Economics Department of Harvard. The recent legislation of the Canadian Parliament for the settlement of individual disputes was designated by the speaker as "the best in the world." Its superlorities in contrast with...
Bishop Scadding has recently been lecturing in England on this subject under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Last Wednesday he spoke at Yale on the same subject. His lecture tonight will be open to all men in the University...
President Eliot will give a public address this evening at 8 o'clock in the Portland Street Congregational Church, Haverhill, under the auspices of the Men's Club of that church. His subject will be "Government by Commission," the same subject on which he spoke last week at Worcester. President Eliot is an advocate of the reform of municipal government by this method, which has been tried successfully in several American cities...
...told of the value of the great quantity of portraits, pictures and private correspondence which has come down to us, and of the special importance of the mass of allegories and caricatures, which formed the political education of an ignorant people, who had just acquired the suffrage. He then spoke of the unbounded popularity of Rousseau and of his writings, and the popularity, second only to that of Rousseau, of Benjamin Franklin, the idol of the French people. The misery of the lower classes, while undoubtedly great, has been grossly exaggerated by Carlyle and others; and far from being...
...present visit to this country is on the invitation of L'Alliance Francaise to deliver a course of lectures under its auspices. On Saturday he spoke before the Boston-Cambridge section of I'Alliance in the Tuileries, Boston, on the subject: "Dans la vielle Suisse; moeurs et croyances de la montagne...