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Bertrand Russell, prominent philosopher, will deliver a lecture open to the University, under the auspices of the Philosophical Club, in the New Lecture Hall Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be "The Philosophy of Physics...
This morning's correspondent puts definite voice to a question which has long been in the minds of many undergraduates. Last Spring a good deal of discussion was heard in regard to the fate of the clubs under the House System and at that time President Lowell in speaking before various undergraduate organizations assured their members that an effort would be made to solve this problem by supplying food from the College kitchens to the various club houses. This plan has since been found to be impractical. Nothing definite can be said of the fate of the clubs at present...
...however, as is earnestly hoped, some revision downward may be made in the minimum board charge, there will be ample opportunity for the existence of clubs which serve one meal a day. Such organizations have a successful prototype in the Metropolitan lunch clubs, and would perform a valuable service in bringing men of different Houses together several times a week. A revision of the club system in this direction would retain most of the real advantages of the present system and do away with the isolated clique tendency which finds its fullest and worst development in so many other American...
...contention that a shift from club or fraternity houses to the rooms offered by the House System will work an even greater hardship little need be said. President Lowell has repeatedly pointed out that men are not to be forced to enter the Houses. If it so develops that the atmosphere in the Houses is such to attract men to them, the extinction of the clubs involved will be but another example of the sound principal of survival of the fittest...
...banquet planned in honor of the University football team by members of the Harvard Club of Boston will be held on December 19, according to members of the committee organizing the festivity. E. W. Soucy '16 will be in general charge of the dinner and will be assisted by a committee of 14 members, among whom are many prominent in the football history of the University...