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Interest in the art of speaking well has been increasing very considerably of late among undergraduates. In 1891 there was but a single course in Public Speaking at Harvard, attended by about 90 men. At present five courses are being given in Public Speaking with at attendance of over 400 men, not to mention two courses in the Divinity School and four courses in the Summer School...
...number of the most successful of the changes that have been made of late in city government, the commission plan of administration, the initiative, referendum and recall, the short ballot and preferential voting. If accepted and administered in the right way, the proposed charter should put Cambridge among the best governed cities of the country and would make it possible for students of the University to study the most approved methods of government at first hand...
...clothes collected will be sent to worthy charitable institutions and the magazines will be distributed among hospitals, reading rooms, and charity homes. The text-books will be added to the text-book loan library in Phillips Brooks House. The books used in the larger courses such as Government 1, History 1, and Economics 1 are most needed...
Such far-reaching agreements are evidence of a great increase in the community of international interests. An arbitration treaty will not of itself stop war,--it is merely an indication of public sentiment. Since the beginning of time there has been scarcity and consequent conflict of desire among men. The savage thought that a fight with his fellow was the only solution of the problem, if there was but food enough for one. At present two civilized nations think that war is the only solution, if there are sufficient foreign trade markets for but one. The present propaganda for international...
...will prominent suffragists speak, but also prominent anti-suffragists in order that the two sides of the question may be put fairly before those in attendance at the lectures. Dr. Max Eastman of Columbia University, secretary of the New York Men's League for Woman Suffrage, will probably be among the speakers, and it is hoped that Mrs. Pankhurst, the English militant suffragette, may be secured...