Word: talking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first regular meeting of the year was held Friday evening in the rooms of the Union Club. Professor Bocher gave an informal talk on "The Last Paris Salons." Discussion and a social meeting with refreshment followed...
...remember with pleasure the series of college conference meetings held two or three years ago will be glad to know that these meetings are to be begun again this year. The committee in charge of them thought last year that the course of talks on Bible study would in a measure take their place and also that the field might well lie fallow for a year. It was evident throughout the year, however, that the conference meetings were distinctly missed, that they fill a particular place in the college life, and that nothing else can satisfactorily take that place. Accordingly...
...state campaign and their application to the present situation in the national politics from the standpoint of a man who allies himself to that party in which he sees the greatest opportunities for good government. Mr. Storey has of late been identified with the Democratic party and his talk on Wednesday will be in large measure a discussion as to whether that party has kept its pledges and is hence entitled to the support of the honorable and intelligent portion of the community...
...experience into this position. I never took a pledge but once. I had been urging a poor drunken fellow not to drink again for a year, showing him the misery which his habits brought to his wife and children. He answered, "It is all very well for you to talk. Mr. Hale, who can take your glass of wine whenever you like. It is easy for you to tell a poor devil like me that I must not drink a glass of rum when I feel the need of it." I then told him that I would not touch wine...
...should be pleased to talk with you on the subject, and will call on any student if requested. Write to either address above given...