Year/Speaker(s) |
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Info |
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| 1900 |
Dr.
Albert E. Winship |
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Windship was an educator, author of a biography
on Horace Mann, and was an editor of the Journal of Education. From
Boston, Mass., Winship's commencement remarks
were entitled: "Rascals
and Saints". |
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| 1901 |
Dr.
Philip E. Moxom |
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Moxom,
Pastor of South Congregational Church of Springfield, Massachusetts, delivered an
address entitled "Every
Man a Genius". |
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| 1902 |
The
Rev. R.G.S. McNeille |
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The title of this address was "The Harper
and the Harp". |
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| 1903 |
W.
H. Jordan |
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Jordan was Director of the New York Agricultural
Experiment Station. |
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| 1904 |
Rev.
Pleasant Hunter |
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Hunter was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey. His address was titled "The Future
of the Anglo-Saxon". |
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| 1905 |
Rev.
Ashley Day Leavitt |
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"The Individual, Law and Liberty" was
tht title of Leavitt's commencement remarks. Leavitt
was Pastor of the State Street Congregational
Church in Portland, Maine. |
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| 1906 |
Nahum
J. Bachelder |
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Bachelder, who also gave an address at the 1895 Commencement, was Master of the National Grange at the time of this second visit to campus.
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| 1907 |
Rev.
Rockwell Harmon Potter |
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Potter was paster of Center Church in Hartford,
and later dean of the Hartford Seminary. At the
first ceremony for which the graduating class
wore caps and gowns, Potter talked about "The
School of Life". |
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| 1908 |
Edward
H. Jenkins |
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Jenkins, Director, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment
Station, spoke on "The Business of Farming". |
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| 1909 |
George
P. McLean |
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"The Starting Posts and Other Posts" was
the title of McLean's remarks.
McLean was governor from 1901 to 1903, and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1911
to 1929.
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