Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spoke Saturday morning at the preliminary trials to select speakers for the Boylston Prizes for elocution, 12 men were retained. Owing to the illness of Dean Briggs and Mr. Hart, the judges were Professor T. N. Carver, Assistant Professor Edward Hale and Rev. Prescott Evarts of Christ Church. The men retained, who will speak at the final trials next Thursday in an order to be determined later by lot, are: J. L. Burns '06, L. Carroll '06, W. H. Davis '05, H. S. Deming '05, R. L. Hale '06, W. O. Hubbard '05, A. S. Murphy '06, P. H. Noyes...
...Machiavelli of A. E. Hutchinson '06, though a difficult part played commendably well, showed less originality than some of the other characters. G. H. Field '06, in the part of "Hazy." or "?," DeTrop's absent minded servant, was in action and facial expression an extremely laughable figure. He spoke his excellent line with an inimitable drawl, and convulsed the audience by his solo "Absent-Minded," R. N. Baldwin '05 sang "The Ghost" and "Guidarello Gidarelli" with ease and snap. His burlesque of the sate ghost was amusing, but not consistent, even for the purposes of comic opera. For Gascon Abandon...
Tonight Mr. Gompers will show that labor unions as a factor in the industrial life of the country have an immense power which they are using to its best advantages. In his lecture in Sanders Theatre last May on "The Industrial Conditions of Public Happiness" President Eliot spoke on the relations of labor unions and employers. Professor Commons of the University of Wisconsin, recently delivered here a series of three lectures on "Relations between Trade Unions and Employers' Organizations...
...final trails to select the Harvard team for the New Lecture Hall last night, resulted in the choice of A. C. Blagden '06, M. Kabatchnick '06, and A. M. Newald '06. The other three men who spoke in the final trials: A. W. Blackwood '05, G. Clark 2L., and G. W. Putham 2G., will compose the second team, from which the alternate will be chosen. The Coolidge prize of $100 was awarded to A. M. Newald '06 for having done the best work in all three trials...
...That the president of the French Republic should be elected by popular vote," speaking in the following order both in their main and rebuttal speeches: J. W. Plaisted, A. N. Holcombe, J. A. Harley. The Sophomore team, composed of W. H. Keeling, S. F. Peavey and M. C. Leckner, spoke in the order named, but in rebuttal Keeling spoke first, Leckner second, and Peavey third. Both teams made use of too many quotations instead of developing their statements from their own arguments. In the rebuttal speeches the Sophomores met their opponents' arguments more effectively, but the Juniors spent too much...