Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leaving recitation rooms in the middle of the hour. There is another thing constantly occurring that ought to be criticised even more harshly, - I mean the practice some men have made of leaving Sanders in the midst of the lectures that are frequently delivered there. It must cause a speaker no little annoyance to see, before his lecture is half through, a score or more of men climb over the knees of five or six people and stalk out. If the offenders are freshmen, it is to be hoped that living a year or two in the atmosphere of gentlemen...
...speaker took for his text the VI chapter Corinthians, 7th verse. What ever a man's belief may be every one is subject to the law of God and Nature that he must reap just what he sows. If there is any lesson that history teaches us it is this fact. We may deceive ourselves into fancied security, but this law will always find us out. The subject divides itself into four divisions upon which emphasis ought to be put, namely, that everyone must expect to reap what he sows, the same kind of seed and more than he sows...
...freely forgive us he cannot take away the consequences of any of our misdeeds. The worst of our sowing is that others must reap with us. We bring evil consequences upon the innocent. The address closed with a cordial invitation to those present to make themselves known to the speaker personally. Mr. Moody has a very magnetic manner and a pleasing voice. The excellent quality of the singing added much to the pleasure of the services...
...President of the State Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives...
Forty members of the Western Massachusetts Yale Alumni Association met at the Massasoit House Monday evening for their fall banquet. President Dwight was their guest and principal speaker. He believed thoroughly in classical education. Among the other speakers were Senator Henry L. Dawes, Rev. Dr. Samuel G. Buckingham, Judge Gideon Wells, Maj. S. B. Spooner and Philip W. Moen...