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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dinners. The only part of the new club house on which considerable work still remains to be done is the interior of the big dining hall fronting on 45th street, which is to be known as Harvard Hall, and which will be finished on the style of the old English college dining halls. The regular evening dinner, which has become an important institution in the life of the Harvard Club, even with the inadequate accommodations of the old club house, will be served in Harvard Hall...
Under the auspices of the Sociedad Espanola Senor Maximo Yturralde will give a lecture in Spanish in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, on "Why English is the World's Leading Language, and Spanish the Second...
Senor Yturralde is a native of Navarre, Spain, and a graduate of Sos in Aragon, He has travelled extensively through South America, where he visited the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Brazil. He came to the United States about a year and a half ago to learn English, and is now professor of Spanish in the Boston Academy of Languages, and secretary of El Club Espanol in Boston...
...annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held on Thursday, June 29. President Angell, of the University of Michigan, has been chosen orator, and F. B. Gummere '75, professor of English and German at Haverford College, poet. Hon. J. D. Long '57, president of the Society, will preside...
...solution of these race problems will be found when we learn to differentiate between accidental and essential race characteristics. We must learn to look not at physical but at mental traits in judging races. This the English are doing in Jamaica; they give fair government to the negroes, allowing them to govern themselves whenever possible, and, as a result, there is no negro problem. The same policy, Professor Royce said, would solve our Southern question...