Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bonapartre graduated from Harvard in '71, and has for several years been an Overseer. He has been one of the leaders of the civil service reform movement, and was recently at the head of the movement that defeated Senator Gorman in Maryland. Mr. Bonaparte is a most interesting speaker, and from his practical experience in "Civic Duties and Reforms," is most eminently qualified to speak on such subjects...
Harvard Christian Association. Speaker: Mr. W. R. Dickinson '99. Holden Chapel...
Harvard Christian Association. Speaker: Mr. W. R. Dickinson '99. Holden Chapel...
...debate, it was the best ever held in the Yale-Harvard series. It was direct all the way through, it never hung on the wording of the question, and it was not marred by any slip of either side. Another characteristic was the intense interest aroused by every speaker and maintained throughout the debate by the exact knowledge of the subject shown on both teams, the perfect form of presentation of Harvard, and the convincing earnestness of Yale. In the rebuttals all these qualities were present and in addition to them a marvellous quickness in grasping and refuting arguments, together...
...Keith was the second Harvard speaker. His position was that the loss of the influence of the United States in Hawaii and the accession of some foreign power are imminent, because Hawaiian government is insecure, and because other governments have designs on the islands. He began by showing the impossibility of independent sovereignity in Hawaii. The islands must form an alliance. If not with the United States or England, Japan is ready to push her interests...