Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker, but a member of the United States Senate. How that was I can not tell, but it always imparted a touch of tenderness to me to feel that he had made a sacrifice for what he loved. In the anti-slavery school there was something that made oratory. Phillips...
...second plan is to have flowers thrown from a platform concealed in the old tree. The objections that have been offered are: (1) "We are not a female seminary;" (2) the whole idea is strained and unnatural; (3) "it is the reverse of scrabbling pennies for muckers...
...other hand, the new plan proposed in yesterday's CRIMSON, seems a much better one. The arrangement of details would be very simple. For example, a platform might be erected in the Tree, and flowers thrown out from it in every direction. If it should seem best to have the men who do the throwing concealed, they might be stationed behind a screen of evergreens. The great advantage of this new plan seems to be that there could be no prolonged scrimmage, as the flowers, falling lightly on a compact mass, could never reach the ground...
...platform at the upper end of the rowing room is open to all those who wish to see the practice...
Besides the speakers a number of prominent graduates occupied seats upon the platform, among them being Mr. E. W. Hooper, Mr. Endicott Peabody, Mr. C. F. Adams, 2d, Col. R. H. Stevenson, Mr. Thayer, and Mr. Francis Peabody...