Word: talked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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STUDENT VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE. - Mr. Birtwell will be in Grays 17 this morning from 9.30 till 12.30 to talk with men in regard to volunteer work...
...Civil Service Reform Club held its second smoke talk last evening at the Colonial Club. Professor Hart was the speaker and gave a very interesting talk on civil service in the United States, taking the point of view of the spoilsman and discussing the arguments which the latter advances for his belief in the distribution of offices among party followers as a reward for service...
...book suffers a little from a trait noticeable in some other writings of this author an irrepressible fondness for paradox. Perhaps it is necessary nowadays to talk about Shakspere paradoxically, if one expects to receive any attention; but paradox too often passes for originality...
Graduate Club.This evening at the meeting of the Graduate Club, Professor Shaler will talk on the influence and use of environment upon education, with special reference to Cambridge conditions...
After the talk Mr. Copeland read the first chapter of "Pride and Prejudice," and selections from Thomas Bailey Aldrich. He ended by reading Thackery's "Ballade of the Bouillabaisse," which, he said, might be called the key note of "Trilby...