Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following report of Rev. Phillips Brooks' talk in Holden Chapel, Tuesday evening, was crowded out of yesterday's issue...
...were obliged either to stand at the very back of the chapel or to go away, for lack of sufficient space in which to bestow themselves. Now Appleton Chapel was built for Harvard College and for the use of Harvard students. Eminent preachers are engaged to come here and talk to us, and the more eminent the preachers are, the better pleased are we to hear them. By courtesy-misplaced it would seem-the college authorities have extended the privilege of hearing these clergymen in Appleton Chapel to the people of Cambridge. But the people of Cambridge wrongfully abuse this...
There is some talk that Johns Hopkins University will be removed to Chfton, just outside of Baltimore. This would be in accordance with the wishes of the founder, and would also secure to the college a sum of $35,000 offered for the maintenance of a school of science...
Work on the new Boston athletic club house is progressing finely. There is some talk of engaging Kilrain for instructor of sparring, and John Graham as instructor of athletics in general...
...Columbia sophomores talk of giving a dinner to the members of their crew that defeated the Harvard sophomores in the freshman race at New London last June...