Word: talking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prout addressed a large audience on "General Gordon and the Soudan." The lecture was particularly interesting for the reason that Colonel Prout had himself served under Gordon in Egypt and Central Africa. Colonel Prout had intended to speak of Gordon's work as an engineer; but as such a talk would have been chiefly technical, he changed his mind and spoke of Gordon's character and his achievements in the Soudan. The following is a short summary of Colonel Prout's lecture...
...agree with the general talk of the team being stale to any great degree. Some of the men may need a rest, notably Captain Williams and Minds, but nearly all of the rest of the team have been laying off for a day or so every once in a while, and rather than needing a rest we are inclined to think that some of them need more work...
...Christian Association held its weekly meeting last night in Holden Chapel. C. E. Noyes, Gr., led, and gave a short talk on "Our Christianity." He said that college men are tested more than other men and their Christianity becomes a life instead of a formula and a creed. As they make their Christianity a life, evil becomes inconsistent with that life and thus is more easily kept...
...parallel planes there is the same distribution of molecules. The closer they are together in a plane, the greater is the distance apart of two similar planes. The farther apart two planes are, the less is their cohesion. Only certain planes occur in Nature. The lecturer illustrated his talk by various specimens, models...
...spite of the bad weather a large audience assembled last evening in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum to hear Mr. Herbert Welsh, editor of "City and State." The subject of Mr. Welsh's talk was "The College Graduate and the Civil Service." The address was full of interest and very much to the point. A summary of it follows...