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...weeks ago, will be held in the Shepard Room, Phillips Brooks House, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The object of the meeting is the formation of an Esperanto club. Mr. J.F. Twombly '94, who has studied the language for two years, and has had correspondence with Esperantists in foreign countries, will address the meeting. The matter of communicating with other Esperanto clubs, literature and future meetings, will be discussed this afternoon. All members of the University interested in Esperanto are urged to come to this morning...
...Munro, instructor in Government, will give the third of a series of weekly talks on "Some Problems of a Modern City," in Phillips Brooks House Parlor, this evening at 7 o'clock. Dr. Munro will speak on "City Problems Connected with the Alien Influx," showing the difficulties caused by foreign immigration...
...While in college he took a number of debating and public speaking prizes and played on the football team for four years. Since graduation he has spoken frequently at many Universities and colleges both in this country and in England. Mr. Speer is now secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Protestant Church. On his last visit to Cambridge in 1902 he spoke before a large audience in the Living Room of the Union. Among a number of other books, he has written "A Memorial of a True Life," a biography of Hugh Beaver, the son of ex-Governor...
...prize of $40 is offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. This prize is open only to members of the Senior class of Harvard College and to special students in their third or fourth year who have taken courses in political science and English literature. Essays must be handed...
This enterprise, inaugurated in the spring of 1904, aims (1) to unite all Harvard men serving in any foreign field, by a closer tie to one another and to the University; (2) to secure information about their work, for the benefit of undergraduates and alumni; (3) to raise money for the support of Harvard men sent to foreign countries; (4) to send out men who will bear the spirit of the University into their work; (5) to foster by all these means of the spirit of missions within the University itself...