Word: floors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...apparent than ever. Though the Harvard Union may the best it can, and though there are some undeniably good men in it, it does not satisfy the university at all. To begin with its members are elected on a totally wrong principle. Any man, who speaks twice from the floor, is at once taken into the society. It does not depend on the character of his speeches at all, only on the number. The result is that the Union is composed largely of men who have no real claim to a speaking ability and that consequently membership in the Union...
...March, to members of the Union, the object being simply to get the speaking material into the Union. The competitive trial will occur about a week after the mid-years, and all men who have any expectation of trying are urged to join at once. Two speeches on the floor of the house entitle a man to membership. There will be a meeting tonight, at which the question of closing the World's Fair will be discussed. At this meeting, tickets for the debate in Sanders Theatre will be given to union members. No member can procure tickets unless...
...Zoological Club will meet in room 3, fourth floor of the Museum Tuesday, Jan. 3, at 7.30 p. m. Papers on the following topics will be presented...
...Millet, his younger brother. With this paper is an engraving by Closson of Millet's painting "The Sheep-Shearers." At intervals for the last few years the Century has been calling attention to the neglect of the Yosemite Valley Commissioners to employ exact supervision in the care of the floor of the Valley. There is a long editorial review in this number of the situation with quotations from the official report of an agent of the Interior Department. It argues strongly in favor of receding the Valley to the nation. Washington Gladden's sketch of the "Cosmopolis City Club" showing...
...BAKER.THE Zoological Club will meet Tuesday, Dec. 20, at 7.30 p.m. in Room 3, fourth floor of the museum. Papers on the following subjects will be presented: - Polychoerus, The Autorbital Process, Development of the Solenogastres, Development of Cerata in Aelois...