Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...joint meeting and separate annual meetings of the National Municipal League, the National Conference for Good City Government, and the American Civic Association, began at Cincinnati, Ohio, last evening. This evening President C.W. Eliot '53, of the National Conservation League, will be the principal speaker...
Captain Fish was the only speaker, as Coach Haughton was unable to be present. The University team this year is not composed of veterans like Yale's, which is considered invincible. Men like ours, however, prove better in the end than such an organization. Our material is as good as last year's and our chances for a victory are more than even. This year the team has again had the best coach in the country, and also the best secondary coaches for all departments. During the past week the team has shown remarkable improvement. In the Yale game...
...speaker began by describing the old Irish squire who was often of English descent, but was thoroughly Irish in other ways. He stood against the measure to abolish the Irish Parliament which was passed only by the worst kind of bribery. The abolition of the Parliament injured the landlord by sending him to London, where he tried to live up to the scale set by the English aristocracy, and in a few years ran into debt beyond recovery. The tenant supplied all the capital while the landlord merely held the position of rent-taker and did nothing in return. Because...
President Emerltus Eliot was the principal speaker on Saturday at the annual celebration of "Ether Day" by the alumni of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Eliot spoke in part as follows...
President Lowell was the last speaker of the evening. He pointed to one of the chief defects in the graduate of American schools of applied science as that of timidity in attacking large problems. Students too often begin with low ideals and try to attain greater ones, whereas the reverse should be the rule to follow. In their studies, students are inclined to wait for their instructors to tell them how and why to do their work. "The true scholar," said President Lowell, "does not wait for a Professor to come along with a lantern and show...