Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graduates in such numbers as to overflow the Living Room. From 4 until 5 o'clock President Eliot received and shook hands with members of the University and with graduates. At 5 o'clock, after leading a cheer for President and Mrs. Eliot, J. A. Burgess '04 spoke briefly, expressing the gratitude of the undergraduates for all that President Eliot has done for them, and conveying the request or both graduates and undergraduates to be allowed to place a the Union a portrait of the President which should always be before Harvard men as a token of esteem and appreciation...
...Committee on Metropolitan affairs held a hearing at the State House yesterday, to consider the bill providing for the rebuilding of the Boylston street bridge. Senator D. W. Lane '94 presided. Major H. L. Higginson h.'82 spoke in behalf of the bill, pointing out the inadequacy and danger of the present bridge on the days of the big games. B. G. Waters '94 and Mr. de las Casas, chairman of the Metropolitan Park Commission also spoke in favor of the bill...
...held in the New Lecture Hall last night was won by the Sophomores by a vote of two judges to one. The Seniors supported the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That complete secularization of education in France would be for the best interests of the country." The Senior team spoke in the following order: N. Pereles, E. W. Baker, F. W. Catlett. The rebuttal order was N. Pereles, F. W. Catlett, E. W. Baker. The Sophomores gave their main and rebuttal speeches as follows: J. W. Plaisted, A. W. Blackwood, M. Kabatchnick...
...Clark spoke of the good accomplished among the poor by the playgrounds and sumnier vacation schools of Boston. In closing, he said that too much importance should not be laid upon competitive athletics. Men should engage in sport to develop mind and character, as well as body...
Osborne Howes, Esq., Honorary Japanese Consul in Boston, spoke in the Living Room of the Union last night under the joint auspices of the Union and the Harvard Japan Club, on "The Present Situation in the Far East...