Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Clubs in the vicinity of Boston have started a movement to form a federation of Harvard Clubs in New England similar to the Associated Harvard Clubs in the West. President Eliot invited the secretaires of the clubs interested to lunch at his house last Friday, in order to discuss the project. Those present organized themselves into a committee of which S. H. Longley '94 of Worcester was elected president and C. T. Billings '84 of Lowell, secretary...
...high. By treating sensational subjects the novelist endeavors to furnish relaxation, and generally tries to work out the problem of how a normal human being, placed in a very conventional society, will resist the temptation to follow his personal inclinations. The intellectual candor of the French leads them to discuss this problem openly, whereas our writers generally ignore...
...important meeting of the society will be held in the Shepard Room of the Phillips Brooks House at 5 o'clock next Tuesday to discuss plans for encouraging the study of Esperanto at Harvard to fix the dates on which the competitions for the Ostwald prizes of $50 for the best speech an essay in Esperanto will close...
...Calhoun Colored School, Calhoun, Alabama, will speak in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House at 7.30 o'clock this evening under the auspices of the Social Service Committee. His subject will be "Community Building and Small Holdings of Land in a Black-Majority County." Mr. Dillingham will discuss the economic and sociological aspects of the progress of the Negroes, and will give an account of the industrial and educational work of the Calhoun Colored School...
...eight lectures will cover the ground of M. Le Braz's researches and offer a varies choice of subjects relating to the land of Brittany. Commencing with a description of Brittary and the bretons the course will discuss the relation of the breton genius to that of other Celtic peoples the breton literature Brittany's part in French history; and the influence which Brittany has exerted over such famous writers as Chateaubriand, Renan, Michelet, Flaubert, Taine, and Loti, concluding with an estimate of the Celtic Renaissance on French literature...