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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debate tonight will be competitive. A committee of judges, consisting of Dean Briggs, Professor Peabody, and Mr. Cummings, will submit the names of the best speakers; and from the list of men thus chosen new members of the Union will be elected at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/24/1893 | See Source »

...heard of, to state the purpose of its organization. The ultimate aim of the society is, briefly, to establish a standard theatre, in many respects similar to those in London and Paris. It is to be subsidized by a private club of five hundred active members. These will be chosen mostly from the select literary, theatrical and social circles of New York. It is hoped to build a club house and theatre in that city. Once started, the company will proceed to produce as rapidly as possible plays of real literary merit, written by the prominent literary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theatre of Arts and Letters. | 3/16/1893 | See Source »

Those members of the senior class of the Yale Divinity School who are going to speak at the graduating exercises were chosen Friday afternoon. Half the number are Amherst College graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/15/1893 | See Source »

...twelve men chosen at the recent competitive debate of the Harvard Union to form a nucleus for a new society met last night to elect officers and decide upon matters of administration. The officers elected were as follows: President, F. C. McLaughlin '93; Vice President, Carl Vrooman Sp.; Secretary, H. C. Lakin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Debating Society. | 3/11/1893 | See Source »

...reorganized society will probably be run on a plan something like this. Meetings will be held once in two weeks. As usual there will be four regular disputants chosen invariably from the society. After the debate by these regular disputants opportunity to speak will be given members of the University, their speeches being limited, however, to five minutes. To prevent filibustering which interferes to such an extent with the best workings of a society, the new society will hold special business meetings not oftener than once a month at which all the business will be done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Debating Society. | 3/11/1893 | See Source »

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