Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Scott, '90, consented to take the place of the absent speaker on the affirmative. He said that from Captain Kidd's day to the present silver had been the people's money. Miners on the whole do not make money, and therefore it cannot be objection-able to protect them. Mr. W. Wells, '90, closed the debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value...
Charles O. Baird, of Philadelphia has given $6000 to Princeton college, from the income of which the following prizes will be given to members of the senior class who excel in oratorical exercises: The Baird prize of $100 to the best speaker of those who have ranked among the best six writers in any two of the departments of English literature, rhetoric and oratory; a prize for oratory of $50 to the best speaker exclusive of the Baird men; a prize for delivery of $30 to the next best speaker; also a prize of $50 for the best poem...
...improvement of the principles of natural religion as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned men." Dr. Gottheil chose as the part of this subject on which he wished particularly to speak the school of natural religion in ancient Israel. The fact, said the speaker, that natural religion was a factor of no mean importance in the growth of revealed religion has hardly been well understood. The Bible used to be thought of as a unity, but modern criticism has shown that it now contains several books which certainly did not originally form a part...
...college conference meeting to be held this evening in Sever promises to be one of marked interest both in the topic for consideration and in the speaker who will open the discussion. Mr. Richard H. Dana, of New York, is to address the students on the subject of Reforms in Political Methods, and how to bring them about. The subject will of course be approached from a non-partisan point of view, and Mr. Dana's great familiarity with political affairs cannot fail to make the meeting both interesting and instructive. It may be well to add, for the sake...
...Lewis, from whom Chittenden and Lewis were elected. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and accepted there was a report of several committees. The following men were voted in as new members: Scudder, Wirts, Dudley, Bates, Smith. Mr. Perot was then introduced as the speaker of the evening. He gave a short description of the principles of the are and incandescent lights, illustrating them by diagrams on the black board. He also gave a minute description of how the carbons, which are used in the are system, are manufactured, and passed around specimens for the audience...