Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...placing their scenes in Paris these writers removed their stories from the capital. Barres for example preaches country life and M. Le Roux, believing that the French should know more about the outside world, especially wished in his own works to make his people familiar with foreign lands. He spoke of the virtues of patriotism, and in closing paid a grateful tribute to the great vigor of American ideas...
Representatives of the North and South Ends spoke of the great need of the young people in those sections for better bathing and skating facilities such as would be afforded by the proposed water-park. The editor of a leading Italian newspaper in Boston spoke for the Italian residents of the district, saying that these people were very fond of open air life and would keenly enjoy the privileges of a new pleasure ground...
Henry B. Wright, Yale '98, speaking for "The Yale Association," dwelt upon the unity of Harvard and Yale in all their religious aims. President Eliot spoke on "The Function of Religion in College"; he defined religion as primarily love for man and for God; and set forth the unity of ideals and interests, that under all differences of creed and condition, exists among men. W.T. Reid '01, replying to the toast "Athletics," spoke of Christianity as the best impulse in athletics and in life, because it infuses that united spirit and that inspiration which means success. Col. N.P. Hallowell...
...Service" by telling of the part Harvard men are bearing and ought to bear in social work, and by explaining the only way in which men should go into it: that is, with the spirit of equality and brotherhood. G.E. Huggins '01, the incoming general secretary of the association, spoke on "The Undergraduates," and Major Higginson on "The Graduates." O.G. Frantz '03, the new president of the Christian Association, made the last speech of the evening. With directness and force, he outlined the hopes and plans for the coming year, and especially the one preeminent aim of the association--that...
...Harvard. The men who replied to the toasts were of varied religious beliefs, and their expressed opinions covered a broad field of ethical and religious thought. Yet the many-sided views of President Eliot, of Major Higginson, of Col. Hallowell, of Bishop Lawrence and the other men who spoke, coincided in the one fundamental principle, emphasized by Frautz as the chief aim of the association, that religion, if it is religion, means an earnest and purposeful life and active and definite social service--and that such religion lays claim to the allegiance of every...