Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...utmost capacity last evening, many people being obliged to stand. Rev. Phillips Brooks occupied the pulpit, and delivered an extremely interesting address upon a text taken from the first chapter of John-God said: "I am the light of the world, I am the light of anture." The speaker said that when the sun rises over the earth and finds it in darkness it sends its light abroad to every nook and corner; this is the parable of Christ sent on earth to redeem man. It is not strange that we turn from evil to good...
...Cleveland has stood openly on the side of free trade and the speaker questioned whether he had been the clean, non-partisan president which he had promised...
...Robinson was the next speaker. In opening, he welcomed the Republican Club of Harvard and stated that as this is a govenment of the majority, those who had spoken at the recent meeting ought to seek other platforms and endeavor to correct the false impression which they had carried abroad. In Harvard he had learned that protection was the one sound basis of government in this Common-wealth. Harvard had always been for the masses and when the old college ceases to be on the side of the common people, then she ceases to support those principles for which...
...speaker began by saying that in order to attain art, you must have the instruments; the instrument of a comedian lies within himself; it is his body. his life. The comedian must, when he produces a character, enter completely into its spirit. He must penetrate the impressions conveyed by the author, and at the same time give the character as intended by the author and not as conceived by himself...
...Boston, delivered an interesting address to the members of the St. Paul's Society. He congratulated the society upon its growth and the high standing which it has attained in the college. He then spoke of the position of the Christian man in the University. A true Christian, the speaker said, was a follower of Jesus, and one who was not ashamed to own it. Christianity is not a sect or division of religion, it is the universal religion or none...