Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Groves '10 presided and introduced J. V. Martin uC., who spoke of the aims and explained the plans of the society...
After prolonged cheering, President Lowell spoke on intercollegiate contests as a means of college solidarity. "There is no more valuable habit in life that any man can acquire than the habit of winning; and athletics is a means to that end. But there are many men not on the crew, and many pale faces are seen about college." The habit of proper exercise is not as general as it ought to be. We are too much in the habit of thinking that it takes a specialist to enter athletics. This is not so. "You have heard me say that...
...Hall then introduced Justice Loring. He spoke at some length on the advantage of rowing, saying that it makes a man exert himself beyond the point of which he at first never believed himself capable. Mr. Curtiss then gave a very witty account of the condition of rowing in his day. He finished by announcing that on next Wednesday at 3.30 o'clock as many alumni as possible will assemble in front of Claverly to march with a brass band of 60 pieces to Soldiers Field to see the last open practice before the Yale game. Mr. Hall, in behalf...
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...
...Eliot cited the various uses to which ether is put at the present day, and mentioned the discovery of antiseptics seventeen years after that of ether. He then spoke on animal experimentation by vivisection, and gave the resulting benefits to mankind as adequate justification for these experiments. He took as an example the result of the very first discovery, that of substituting vaccination for innoculation in cases of small...