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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fleet is about Boston. This year, as there is to be no boat race at New London, it would seem that the proposition to sail at Newport should be agreed to by Yale, for Newport is for several reasons more convenient to Harvard than New London, and cannot be much out of the way for the Yale men, It is to be hoped that the management of the Yale Yacht Club will look at the matter from this standpoint and agree to accommodate Harvard without hurting their own prospects...
Today's CRIMSON contains a communication concerning Tuesday's election of directors. Most people would agree that the directors should be "firm and subservient" but the writer is either prejudiced or uninformed when he says that the "waiters cannot, on account of their position, act independently." Some of this year's board most ready to advocate change and most openly "unsubservient" have been waiters. There has never been any strong feeling of common interest or any solid organization of the men who wait at the Foxcroft Club and there never will be unless it is produced artificially by such senseless...
...inside workings of the club, it is apparent that there is ample room for improvement. Care should be taken that only such men be chosen as are firm and unsubservient in character. Furthermore, there is a danger that the board of directors be too largely composed of waiters, who cannot, on account of their position, act with the same independence as other members of the club. Enough representative men have been nominated to avoid the election of a partial board...
...today, said Mr. Lehmann, who, like Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Asquith and Sir William Harcourt, owe much of their success as public speakers to the fact that they took part in these Union debates while at college. Here they acquired an excellent training by addressing large and heterogeneous gatherings, which cannot be acquired by speaking before smaller though more intellectual societies. Mr. Lehmann hoped that in the near future some such organization as the University Club might do for Harvard what these clubs have done for Oxford and Cambridge, not only by training men in public speaking, but also in teaching...
SYMPHONY concert tonight. All ushers who cannot come must send substitutes...