Word: affair
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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However excellent and appropriate the plans for this anniversary celebration may be, they cannot be successful without the support of large numbers of graduates and undergraduates. These plans are on a scale which the occasion warrants; but unless everyone enters heartily into the spirit of the affair and feels a personal responsibility to participate as far as possible in the accompanying festivities, the real value of observing the anniversary will be lost...
...Class Day spread, better planned last year than in the previous year, when the affair was an innovation, has been continued by the 1907 officers, and promises to be most successful. Increasing experience has made the Junior Union Dance more pleasant year by year, and it is now one of the big events of the College year...
...coming concert are especially fortunate. Many Seniors will surely be glad of this opportunity to entertain their families and friends who come to Cambridge to attend the festivities of Class Day week. We hope that a large audience will encourage the Musical Clubs to make this concert an annual affair and so add to an already attractive program...
...Graduates' Magazine, which appears today, opens with a biographical sketch of the late Professor C. C. Langdell, former Dean of the Law School. Professor Langdell's work during the transition period of the school when, through his efforts, that branch of the University grew from a small, poorly organized affair with a poor Faculty and a worse library to "a great school in a great University;" and the early difficulties which Professor Langell encountered in his attempts to introduce the now widely used "case system" of studying law, are interestingly described. Following is a timely characterization of the new Dean...
...governing committee of the Intercollegiate Chess League, of which Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton are members, has decided to challenge Oxford and Cambridge to a cable match for the Rice trophy. This match was formerly an annual affair, but has not been played since 1902. The team will consist of six men, chosen from the four members of the league on the basis of the work in the intercollegiate tournament. The American end of the match will be in New York, the British end in London. I. B. Rice, the well known chess expert and donator of the trophy, will...