Word: conference
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twenty-first annual dinner of the "Harvard Advocate" will take place at the Parker House on Saturday, May 7, at 6.15 p.m. Price per plate, $2.50. All past editors and contributors are cordially invited to attend. All those intending to be present will confer a great favor by sending their names before May 5th, to S. W. White, 13 Matthews Hall, Cambridge...
...Professor A. Loisette's course for strengthening the memory. Their purpose is to induce him to give lectures here in person as he has done lately at Yale. If any undergraduates wish to join the class, and will leave their names to-day at 20 Stoughton, they will confer a great favor. It is desirable to have seventy-five members, in which case the fee will be $8 apiece for the course...
THORNTON WOODBURY.LOST. - A black-seal card-case containing a sum of money and personal notes. The finder will confer a favor on the owner by leaving it at Leavitt amp; Peirce...
...Robert Treat Paine followed for the affirmative. It is charged against Cleveland, said he, that he is inconsistent in the matter of the pension vetoes; but so is Mr. Gladstone, who is about to confer a great blessing on the British Empire by his inconsistency! Mr. Paine then discussed the wisdom of Mr. Cleveland's vetoes of private pension bills. He declared that these bills are a most striking example of injudicious charity. It is a most extravagant waste of the nation's money, which should be reserved for more appropriate purposes...
...Friday night last, while Harvard was declaring that the old base-ball league was an inferior one, and that a new association, composed of better clubs, should be formed, Princeton likewise was discussing, in mass meeting, the project of forming a new league. The college voted to confer unlimited powers upon the base-ball management. So, now, the question is on a fair way to settlement. The old association meets upon Friday of this week, and it is hoped that all the arrangements for the new league will be completed before that time. Action by the management at Princeton...