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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot will speak before the Civic Forum on the subject of "Lawlessness" this evening in Carnegie Hall, New York. After the President's speech the question will be open for general discussion. The Civic Forum is an organization in New York whose objects are the discussion of public questions and the promotion of international good-will. Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., h.'90, will preside at the meeting. Tomorrow morning President Eliot will deliver a short address before the students of the Horace Mann Schools and Teachers' College...
...fashioned note--a story straightforwardly told and getting somewhere without baffling allusiveness or the world-worn ennui of two decades of life on this planet. The plot is a trifle better than the telling, but that fault can be remedied. A slightly cynical ending does not destroy the general simplicity. More ambitious and more difficult is the flight of "Tobias Medetates," the most important effort of this number. It is a venture into negro dialect; the character of Tobias is novel and strong. His doctrine of the "come-back" and his ironical "Yessir" are sure touches...
After the adoption of a constitution and a general discussion about the management of the Club, the following officers were elected: president, F. H. Burr '09; vice-president, E. P. Currier '09. The executive committee was chosen as follows: F. M. Blagden '09, P. Dana '04, J. W. Hallowell '01, C. L. Lanigan '10, J. Richardson...
...races, while this fall only twelve crews rowed. Several dormitories or dormitory groups hitherto represented were not able to get out crews either form a lack of interest or from a lack of tolerable material. Either the dormitory is not a good unit for scrub rowing, or the general interest in popular rowing is waning...
...Woods first described two phases of police activity that are little known by the general public. The policeman, when arresting a criminal is really a judge of the first instance, who must quickly decide what constitutes a crime. He is also the only authority in the land in the eyes of the new immigrant, who knows nothing of Constitution or Congress. If he forces some poor push-cart man to give him a bribe, the immigrant forms his ideas of American justice from that action. These two phases greatly increase the need of an honest police force...