Transcription of Speech by Sir George Williams to the Springfield College Jubilee Class of 1894
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Transcription of Speech given by Sir George Williams to the Springfield College, then the International YMCA Training School, Jubilee Class of 1894. The Speech was recorded by George Williams on a wax cylinder recording and played at the Jubilee Celebration of the Founding of the Young Men's Christian Association at Springfield College on June 6, 1894. To learn more about Sir George Williams, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/713. The transcript is presumed to be written by Williams' secretary, W. H. Mills. The transcript is not in George Williams handwriting as compared to signature and letter in his handwriting within collections. To an untrained eye, it appears handwriting appears to match secretary's hand. In addition, there are some discrepancies between the transcript and the actual recorded speech.
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