Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Thayer, Headmaster of St. Mark's School, was toastmaster, and the speakers were G. E. Huggins '01, O. G. Frantz '03 and R. S. Wallace '04, who described the work of the Association during the past year and its plans for the coming year, Rev. John S. Lindsay, who spoke on "Phillips Brooks," Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., who spoke on "The Responsibility of the Christian Student," and President Eliot, who spoke on "The Place of Religion in Life...
...George Riddle '74, spoke last evening in Sanders Theatre, under the auspices of the University Debating Club, on "The Decadence of English Speech." Although, he said, the English language is, when spoken by the best speakers, a most vigorous as well as an exceedingly sweet and poetical language, it is in its usual utterance even among educated people, and especially in the United States, the most abused language in the world. For the last twenty years there has been manifest in the professions and in society a carelessness in speech and in manner of delivery which makes one ask: What...
...Jeffrey R. Brackett '83, of Baltimore, spoke briefly on "The College Graduate in Charity," at a conference of the Social Service Committee in Phillips Brooks House last night. He out-lined the growth of state boards of charity, prison reform conferences, and other agencies for social work during the last twenty-five years. There are at present great opportunities in charitable work open to college graduates as members of a special corps of trained workers, as managers of charitable institutions and agencies, and as individual workers with individuals. For men who feel an especial interest in this field of work...
...Frank M. Chapman, Curator of the Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, lectured in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "The Study of Birds in Nature." Mr. Chapman spoke at length of the great value of the camera in the study of bird life. The lecture was illustrated by a large number of excellent stereopticon views, most of which were taken by Mr. Chapman himself. The lecture last evening took the place of the regular Tuesday evening entertainment at the Union...
...first trial to select the team for the debate with Yale was held in Sever 11 last night. The judges were Professor T. N. Carver, G. W. Dallinger '98, B. Wyman '96 and H. A. Yeomans '00. Thirty men spoke and the following ten were retained: T. H. Reed 2L., I. Grossman 2L., F. Q. Morton '06, F. I. Haber 1L., S. Blaikie '03, R. L. Lyman '03, E. M. Rabenold '04, A. D. Adams 2L., M. Hale '03, and F. B. Wagner...