Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Dwight, who was next called upon, was received with three cheers and a tiger. The speaker said he had taken some part in the changing of the name of Yale College to Yale University, but he asked all present to remember Prof. Fisher. He felt that he had reason to look back on his experience with credit, for this was the 10th alumni dinner he had attended, and he had four more to attend. The speaker said he believed we were passing into a new era at Yale, as well as at older universities, and he had felt...
...enterprise of the Total Abstinence League in receiving such able and entertaining speakers as Col. Thomas W. Higginson and Gen. John L. Swift is to be greatly commended. Those who have been fortunate enough to listen to the scholarly and eloquent addresses of Col. Higginson and those who have heard the brilliant and witty speeches of Gen. Swift will appreciate the opportunity given them to-night. Col. Higginson is well known to us all. Of Gen. Swift, we would like to say that a more amusing speaker, a better story teller, has rarely appeared before American audiences. He is often...
Those who, relying upon a certain order, calculate upon hearing any particular speaker at the vesper services, will be disappointed. The preachers vary from service to service, but in no fixed order...
Captain Keyes of the University crew was the first speaker. He spoke in a non-committal way, stating that the action of the freshmen was not to be made hastily, but that they must decide whether they wished to establish a precedent for future classes; he also spoke of the bad condition of the course, and thought Harvard ought to keep up the old traditions of the Columbia freshman race unaltered. Mr. T. Q. Browne, '88 followed him in the same tone...
...factors, the individual and the community. The low estimate put upon the individual was one of the causes of the fall of the Greek republics. One danger lies in the tendency to subordinate the state to the individual. Passing to the christian conception of the world, the speaker emphasized the idea that when we speak of the kingdoms of this world as destined to become the kingdoms of our Lord, we mean not merely China and Japan, but the kingdoms of trade, art, learning, science, government. The institutions, customs, opinions, feelings of society must become Christian...