Word: functions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fourteen, is being led by S. B. Blodgett '11, and managed by G. Sturgis '13. The glee club, which was organized first, consists of about thirty men, and is officered by M. H. Wentworth '01, president; M. B. Lang '04, leader; and A. E. Burr '91, secretary. The chief function of the clubs will be to entertain at class smokers and dinners, but after they have prepared a more extensive repertoire, it is expected that concerts will be given in and about Boston...
...enough to members of this staid old College where Rinehart nights are the chief vulgar amusement. But even at Princeton, customs are following in the path of Bloody Monday Night, which leads us to believe that Harvard is not alone so priggishly indifferent to youthful effervescence after all. "The Function of P. B. K." (if the printer has no Greek letters, why can't it be written Phi Beta Kappa?) sounds learned; but we advise Mr. Potter, when writing for our lay minds, to write simply. He is absolutely right in what he says, but he should strive...
There will, of course, be refreshments, and there will, of course, be entertainment; but the interdormitory smoker has another function. The Governor of North Carolina would not have become famous for asking the Governor of South Carolina--or was it the other way round?--to take a drink, had the remark had no significance beyond the evident one. Neither would the system of Thayer's inviting Hollis; or Holworthy, Stoughton to come and have a good time have imposed itself as a custom last year, had it not proved an effective agent in increasing men's acquaintances among their classmates...
...members. If non-members are at times admitted, it is a favor and not a right; and if the Union chooses to remain exclusive for the Junior Dance, that is entirely its prerogative. The only question is of the Committee's justification in selecting the building for a function supposedly a class affair, not one for Union members only...
...Function of Morning Chapel...