Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOST.- Will the man who has my Coates Speaker please be good enough to return...
...interesting series of talks on the single tax question is at present being conducted in the Well's Memorial Building, 987 Washington St., Boston, by Joseph Lee, Harvard '83. The next talk will be held Saturday, March 16, at 7.30. Mr. William Minot, Jr., will be the principal speaker, and his subject will be "The practical advantages of putting all taxes on real estate." After the opening talk the remainder of the evening will be given to questions and free discussion. All members of the University at all interested in economic or social questions are cordially invited to attend...
...next speaker, Mr. H. A. Davis, '91, argued for the negative. He declared that the interests of the Americans were insignificant in Samoa. What commerce there is carried on by Germans. A stronger government is needed to secure life and property there, for the natives are acknowledged to be incapable. There is no good reason why the country having the greatest commercial interests in the islands should not establish a firm rule there. Our treaty interests would not be infringed nor would our coaling station be lost...
...Bates, '92, continued the debate for the affirmative. He claimed that the Germans were not acting in good faith; they were only trying to acquire more property. The lives and property of Americans are not safe, but have been outraged by the Germans. The speaker took an opposite view of the importance and character of the islands from that of his predecessor. He related several incidents showing the violent and unjust actions of the Germans, and declared that such outrages should be stopped by the United States...
Another of the present profitable series of college conference meetings will be conducted tonight in Sever 11 by Professor J. H. Thayer, D. D. The speaker's subject will be "The Change of Attitude toward the Bible...