Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...public meeting of the Political Club, held last evening in the New Lecture Hall, Mr. James R. Garfield, head of the Bureau of Corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labor, spoke on "The Civil Service of the United States," and General William Crozier, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the War Department, on "War Preparations in Time of Peace." Dean Hurlbut presided...
...Lyman Abbott, D.D. h.'90, gave last night in the Living Room of the Union a short address on "Studying Men." He spoke informally, giving reflections from his own observation and experience in life. College men, he said, are of necessity compelled to give most of their attention to subjects, and consequently take the attitude that a thorough knowledge of subjects will make them successful in later life, that a knowledge of engineering or of the law or of literature will make them good engineers or lawyers or journalists. But such a view is wrong, for a knowledge...
...Thomas L. Greene, of New York City, vice-president of the Audit Company of New York, and author of "Corporation Finance," spoke last night before the Seminary of Economics on "The Capitalization of Corporations." Mr. Greene discussed at length various phases of corporate economics, questions of the basis of capitalization, reorganizations, depreciation and reserve policy. He illustrated his remarks with incidents from an extended professional experience in audit and corporate work and previous editorial training on the New York Evening Post, with which paper he was associated for a year...
...standing, and of reporting any dissatisfaction directly to the captain and coach. Frantz laid special stress on the fact that the first aim of baseball at Harvard is to play the game in a clean and sportsman-like manner, and not, as many suppose, to defeat Yale. Dr. Nichols spoke of the present system, which involves a great deal of knowledge of detail, but is not in any way intended to eliminate personal responsibility. "The best teams we have," he continued, "have no more than three first-rate men, so that good players are sure to make the team." Trainer...
Mayor A. J. Daly then welcomed and introduced the Hon. R. Fulton Cutting, President of the Citizens' Union of New York. Mr. Cutting spoke briefly of the conditions, social and political, to be found in New York, of the work in municipal affairs that is being pursued there, and of the work yet to be done. New York may be said to be representative of the eastern section of the country and thus carries a great responsibility. Mr. Cutting then spoke of municipalities in Great Britain, and indicated the effect of the adoption in this country of the system...