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About $200 has already been subscribed mostly by members of the University for the proposed workingmen's reading room on Washington street, Boston. Either this week or next, the committee in charge is to make a canvass of the various buildings. The reading room will probably be opened immediately after the Christmas recess, and the plan now is to have a concert of popular music by the college band on the opening night...
...Student Volunteer Committee will hold its regular fall clothing collection on Tuesday, December 7. On the afternoon and evening of that day collectors will canvass the buildings carefully at stated hours to be announced by circular...
...expression of undergraduate opinion, to which Mr. Wrightington alludes, was made two years ago. Three means were then employed: personal conversation and correspondence with a large number of college men; the assignment of the University Club as a topic for themes in English course, and a blue-book canvass. The result was an overwhelming expression of thoughtful student opinion in favor of the project. Nearly twelve hundred signed the blue-books at once. There was some thoughtful opinion against the plan, based chiefly on the question of practicability, but without ignoring the very small minority, the committee of graduates...
...enthusiasm of every man in the University. The moment the graduates feel that such enthusiasm exists, it will become possible to secure the necessary subscriptions. It seems to me that the time is ripe for some active measures to bring all this latent feeling to a head. A vigorous canvass of the College, followed by a rousing mass meeting would give some authority to those who desire to make the club a reality...
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL Football Team.- To equip the team in suits, balls, etc., about $300 is needed which must be raised by subscription. Every Law School man is requested to subscribe one or two dollars to the collectors appointed to canvass the different classes...