Word: finding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course, regular training by means of frequent practice debates. The difficulty is to induce enough men to submit to this methodical work with regularity. To those in whom ambition or enthusiasm for debate is strong, and further inducement is unnecessary. It would be of unquestionable advantage, however, to find some means of making the debates attractive enough to insure the attendance of those whose support is but luke-warm. One of the most discouraging features of the system as it now exists, is the difficulty of obtaining an audience...
...going to preach the gospel of organization tonight. Give the new organization a chance. Do not find fault with it. If we get beaten the first year, give the organization a chance the second, if we get beaten the second, give it a chance the third. If we persevere we will win. It is with us, middle-aged men whose youth lies in the remote past, it is upon us that the responsibility rests...
...live in college dormitories, and, in some cases, do not live in Cambridge at all. To such men a University Club would be especially useful. It would supply them while in Cambridge during the day with an attractive headquarters, close to recitation rooms, and they would undoubtedly find it a convenience, as well as a means of closer contact with University affairs...
...sure to be aroused by addresses from such prominent graduates as Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Roosevelt, the business which is to be transacted is as important as has ever come up for consideration in the social and athletic side of Harvard life. The organization proposed, will, if ably conducted, find its field of usefulness constantly broadening, and this field is one which is the province of no organization now in existence. To hear this question discussed by the large and representative body who seem likely to attend will certainly be an event of importance to undergraduates...
...resolved at the University Club mass meeting Tuesday evening the class president have appointed a committee of five consisting of two Seniors, two Juniors, and one Sophomore, whose duty it shall be: "First to canvass the University to find how many men would join such a club, and second to carry before the Graduate Committee the resolution expressive of the feeling of Harvard students in regard to the project...