Word: governor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mass meeting will be held in Sanders Theatre next Monday evening to express appreciation of the gift of $150,000 recently made by Major H. L. Higginson '55 for the University Club. Professor I. N. Hollis will preside, and addresses will be made by Major Higginson, President Eliot and Governor Wolcott...
...dollars and a second prize of two hundred dollars, -- are offered for undergraduates in regular standing, on subjects to be selected by the writers themselves. The only limitation as to subject is that it shall be a contribution to "useful and polite literature" (this was the phrase used by Governor Bowdoin, who founded the prizes in 1790), and that it shall be appropriate for treatment in literary form. The subjects must be approved in advance, as conforming to these conditions, by the chairman of the standing committee of the Faculty on Bowdoin Prizes. The present chairman of that committee...
...lecture delivered in Sever 11 yesterday afternoon by ex-Governor G. S. Boutwell, under the auspices of the Forum and Union, was largely attended and proved very interesting. President Eliot introduced the speaker, referring to him as a veteran orator who was however an exponent of the modern style of oratory as opposed to the old or flowery, decorative style...
...Governor Boutwell said in part: The public speaker is an actor and a good stage appearance is always a great help to him. Though great success has been attained by men destitute of all the natural gifts, it has only come as the result of constant cultivation of their physical and intellectual development from their early youth. The young speaker should exercise, to expand his lungs and develop his physique. But above all he must acquire knowledge. To develop himself intellectually he must read widely, largely and fearlessly in every department of human inquiry...
...Boutwell, ex-Governor of Massachusetts and ex-treasurer of the United States, will speak under the auspices of the Union and the Forum, in Sever 11 this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock not 4.30 o'clock as announced in the calendar-on "Public Speaking." He will be introduced by President Eliot...