Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman Committee will meet in the Assembly Room of the Union tonight at 7.15 to discuss plans for the year and to receive blank invitations. This year, as in former years, each member of the committee will invite a number of Freshmen to his room, giving them an opportunity to meet informally a few upper classmen of prominence, as well as members of their own class...
Last Tuesday a meeting of the University Debating Council was held to discuss the plans for the ensuing year. It was decided to discontinue the publication of "Bothsides, a debating magazine, organized last year by the Council, since the management was unwilling to incur the expense and trouble of publishing the paper...
...pleasure on returning to find the Monthly starting its fortieth volume the day before College opens. As its first leader no subject more timely or essential could have been chosen than "The Union;" and no person better fitted to discuss it than H. S. Thompson, whose article is valuable and concise, and of great moment to members of the class of 1909. The tribute to the present undergraduate officers and committees of the club is well merited, the discussion of its policy and aim sound, and the estimation of its advantages to the individual is, if anything, too moderate...
About a year ago the Committee was called upon to face a new situation. It is a futile waste of time to discuss now the wisdom of building the Stadium. Few, at least of the undergraduates, would maintain that the gift of the class of '79 should have been refused by the Committee, not to say the Corporation, on account of the additional expense it has entailed. Thanks to this expense, and to the feeling of the Committee that one of its first duties is to pay its debts as rapidly as is well possible, our surplus has practically disappeared...
Every week the Christian Association has class devotional meetings and the St. Paul's Society conducts evening prayer. Two informal groups of men, who are interested in the Christian ministry as a life work, have been organized to meet with the University preachers and discuss some of the problems and opportunities of this profession. Through the energy of the Phillips Brooks House Association a similar organization, for social, hospitable and religious purposes, has been organized in the Dental School...