Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...exercises were opened by the College choir which sang the "Harvard Hymn." Dean Briggs then spoke briefly on the purposes of the meeting, saying that it was to reward the students of Harvard who had served their College by doing their work well. The choir next sang a choral by Bach after which Dean Briggs introduced Hon. Francis Cabot Lowell '76, who spoke on "College Truth." He said in part...
Representatives from the cities of Cambridge and Newton, from the Metropolitan Park Commission, Associated Board of Trade, Boston Chamber of Commerce and from several private concerns spoke briefly at the hearing. They were united in the belief that the advisability of building the dam should depend first, upon its effect on the general health; second, upon its effect on the harbor and commerce of Boston; third, upon its effect on the park system...
...Brown '91 spoke last night in the Fogg Lecture Room "On Certain Great Men and Great Occasions in the History of Harvard." He began by describing Governor Hutchinson's visit to the College on April 4, 1771, just when the College had begun to take on its present appearance, for the fire of 1761 had destroyed nearly all of the old buildings...
...meeting of the Religious Union last night Professor James spoke on "The Ascetic Life." Asceticism, he said, is out of fashion today, even in the Catholic Church. It is the result of deep religious feeling. Religious fervor affects people in different ways; creating cheerfulness in some lives, while to other it gives a negative gloominess the expression of which takes the form of asceticism...
Eight men spoke at the Junior debating trials last night, and the following team was selected to debate against the Sophomores in the final class debate: G. Bettman, A. Black and G. W. Hinckley; and O. J. Campbell, alternate. C. L. Grilk 3L. will probably coach the team...