Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conference held under the auspices of the Social Service Committee last night in Phillips Brooks House, Mr. B. C. Marsh spoke on "The Tramp, a Luxury." Mr. Marsh said that in discussing the tramp question he was taking up one of the most important problems to be dealt with by the philanthropic worker. The presence of so many vagrants is for two reasons our own fault,--either we enjoy them, or, if not, we are too lazy to dispose of them...
...McCall, Congressman from Massachusetts, spoke last evening under the auspices of the Republican Club, at a mass meeting which completely filled the Living Room of the Union. Mr. McCall was introduced by H. M. Wheeler '06, president of the club...
Bishop Mackay-Smith then spoke on "The East." Its problems he said, were much the same as those of the rest of the country, but somewhat harder owing to the fact that here the separation between man and man socially is greater than in other parts of the country, and whatever hinders the approach of one man's heart to another's, tends to retard Christian civilization. A second tendency which adds to the difficulty of problems in the East is the mad rush of city life which is more acute here than in the West. A third problem...
...Cartor '00, who is about to return to India, spoke last. He said that the idea that a man who goes to the East makes a great personal sacrifice is ridiculous. India is a thoroughly modern country in respect to democratic government, and railroad, mail and other facilities. The Western teacher or missionary be side has to make no apology for his errand. On the contrary, he found in India a thirst for the fundamental principles of Christian of civilization and religion. More calls than he could fill came to him from high class Hindoos for lectures on Christianity
Professor Goodwin next spoke in a reminiscent vein, and described the College and its life of fifty years ago, contrasting it with that of today...