Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...George H. Palmer, which was held in Appleton Chapel on Saturday afternoon, was attended by a large number of Mrs. Palmer's friends and associates. President Angell of the University of Michigan related Mrs. Palmer's work as a student at that University, and President Hazard of Wellesley College spoke of her later life as president of Wellesley. President Eliot and President Tucker, of Dartmouth, spoke of Mrs. Palmer's later life and work, both public and private. A number of appropriate hymns were sung by the University and Wellesley College choirs...
...Turner, the chaplain, spoke briefly of the work done by the Institute in helping to alleviate the condition of the southern negro. The problem is the four fold one of the church, the schoolhouse, the home and the industrial life. Six millions out of the eight millions of negroes in the South live in the one-room cabin, and Hampton, through its trade school and academic department, is trying to transform the one-room cabin into the intelligent, self-supporting Christian home. Mr. T. B. Williams, a graduate of the Hampton Institute, and also a graduate of Harvard...
...Robert Luce '82, representative from Somerville in the Massachusetts Legislature, and author of the "Luce Caucus Reform Bill" spoke last evening in Room 6 of the Union before the Political Club on "Caucus Reform." Mr. Luce has advocated the adoption of direct nomination of party candidates at the primaries as a substitute for the present method of nomination by conventions...
...second annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Columbian University in Washington during the week from December 27 to January 3. Hon. Carroll D. Wright, who was elected president of the Association in place of Professor Asaph Hall, U. S. N., retired, spoke on "The Psychology of the Labor Question." The following Harvard men read papers: Professor F. H. Bigelow '73, of the United States Weather Bureau, on "The Semi-Diurnal Periods in the Earth's Atmosphere;" and Dr. H. W. Wiley '73, on "The Nature of the Work of the Bureau...
...Archaeological Institute of America met during Convocation Week at Princeton on December 31 and January 1 and 2. President Wilson of Princeton delivered the opening address, and Professor W. H. Goodwin '51 spoke on "A Recent Visit to Greek Lands." Professor C. B. Gulick '90 and Professor G. F. Moore also read papers...