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Tonight at 8 o'clock, when Frederick H. Gillett, congressman of the 2d Massachusetts district and Speaker of the House of Representatives speaks in the Living Room of the Union, will begin an eventful week for the Union. The announcing of the complete election returns tomorrow night is the second event of importance, while on Friday evening next, the Union will be the scene of the big Harvard-Princeton ball. A buffet luncheon, which will be served from 12-2 next Saturday before the football game, and the sixth of the Union's series of tea dances after the game...
Before his speech tonight, Congressman Gillett will be entertained at a small dinner given by the Governing Board of the Union in the Trophy Room at 7 o'clock. Among the guests at this dinner will be the chairman of the committees connected with the organization of the Harding-Coolidge Club of Harvard. Mr. Gillett graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1877, entered politics two years later, and has now served in Congress for the past 27 years...
Professor R. B. Merriman '96 will introduce Congressman Frederick H. Gillett when he speaks in the Living Room of the Union next Monday night at the third of the Union's annual lecture series...
Arrangements have been made for a reception committee from the Union to meet Mr. Gillett in Boston, where he is now aiding in the work of the present campaign. This committee will conduct him to Cambridge where a small dinner will be given in his honor in the Trophy Room of the Union at 7 o'clock. Among the guests at this dinner, which will be given by the Governing Board of the Union, will be the chairmen of the various committees connected with the work of the Harding-Coolidge Club of Harvard...
Congressman Gillett is a graduate of Amherst, from the class of 1874, and of the Harvard Law School in the class of 1877. Two years later he entered politics in earnest as Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, a position which he held for several years. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1890 and again in 1891. Since then he has been a member of the 53rd to the 66th Congresses, covering a period of 27 years continuous service. In Congress, where he is now Speaker, Mr. Gillett has served on many important committees, which include...