Word: spokes
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About seven hundred men were present at the Union last night. President Eliot described the Harvard of thirty years ago; and W. T. Reid '01 and D. C. Campbell '02 spoke on the football situation, and emphasized the need of enthusiastic support of the eleven. After the speeches the songs for the Yale game were rehearsed under the leadership of O. G. Frantz '02. These songs will be sung at the open practice at the end of the week and at the Dartmouth game on Saturday...
...Harvard each year a distinguished man of letters to lecture on French art, literature or history. M. Rene Doumic, a critic, was the first to come to Cambridge, in 1898, lecturing on "Histoire du Romantisme en France." In 1899, followed M. Edouard Rod, a critic and novelist, who spoke on "La Poesie Dramatique en France." The third lecture was M. Henri de Regnier, a poet, whose subject was "Poesie Contemporaine Francaise." Last year M. Gaston Deschamps, the literary critic of the "Temps," delivered the course of lectures on "Le Theatre Contemporain...
...HAVEN, October 22.-The Yale bicentennial exercise were continued this forenoon in Battell Chapel. President Cyrus Northrup delivered an address on "Yale in its Relation to the Development of the Country." He was followed by President D.C. Gilman, who spoke on "Yale in its Relation to Science and Letters...
...exercises today began with services in Battell Chapel at 10.30. President Hadley read from the Scriptures. Rev. J. H. Twichell, senior fellow of the corporation, preached, and ex-President Dwight pronounced the benediction. In the afternoon, Rev. Professor George Park Fisher, D.D., Dean of the Yale Theological School, spoke on "Yale in its Relation to Christian Theology and Missions." In the evening an organ recital was given by Professors Sanford and Jepson. Throughout the day the campus was crowded by visitors viewing the decorations. Elaborate preparations have been made for the dramatic performance to be given by students...
...Higginson h.'82, to the University. A number of invited guests and hundreds of graduates and undergraduates of Harvard had filled the living room and the balconies above it when Mr. Charles Francis Adams '56, after a hearty personal tribute to Major Higginson, introduced President Eliot. President Eliot spoke in detail of the purposes of the Union, and of its possibilities in bringing together under conditions of perfect equality all men in the University, of whatever associations and interests. Malcolm Donald '99, following President Eliot, spoke of the Union and its future from the standpoint of the undergraduate. C. Warren...