Word: club
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...Harvard Club of Boston will give a dinner in honor of the 1909 University crew, at the Hotel Somerset this evening at 7 o'clock. Besides the University crew, there will be present as guests, the University four, the Freshman eight, the Freshman four and the Gentlemen's eight, all of these crews having been victorious at New London last spring...
Major Henry Lee Higginson, of the class of 1855, president of the club, will preside, and William Stickney Hall '69 will act as toastmaster. President Lowell will be present and will speak. Other speakers will be: Judge William Caleb Loring '72, James Freeman Curtiss '99, E. C. Cutler '09, J. Waid '10, captain of this year's crew, and F. M. Blagden '09. Owing to the large number of acceptances already received, a record attendance is expected. The committee on arrangements is as follows: chairman, T. K. Cummins '84; secretary, W. P. Wolcott '03; H. Blanchard...
There will be a meeting of all those interested in upperclass debating, for the purpose of forming an upperclass debating club, in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. These upperclass debating clubs have, in the past, had a strong and active membership on account of the exceptional opportunities which they offered for the intelligent discussion of questions, not only of public importance, but also of the more intimate problems of College life...
...revival of undergraduate debating by the reanimation of one of the recently extinct clubs is a project which should find many supporters. It should especially commend itself to those who are taking courses in argumentation and in public speaking, for such a club will provide the opportunities for informal debating which a College course cannot afford...
...conditions under which the Agora and the Forum ceased activities a few years ago, the chief reason why debating failed was that the control of the two societies was allowed to fall into the hands of a small group of men whose leadership was unpopular. If a debating club is to attract members from more than a limited section of the student body its officers should be so chosen that they will represent a number of different interests. Under a representative set of officers, and with competitions for places on the University teams and for the various prizes to stimulate...