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There will be a meeting of the executive committee of the Civil Service Reform Club next Monday night to arrange for a dinner which the club intends to give. Ex-Governor Russell will probably be one of the guests and will address the club. Blue-books will be placed at Leavitt's and Thurston's, where members may sign who wish to be present at the dinner...
...elaborate arrangements are being made, a guarantee fund of $2,000 having already been raised. It is expected that the attendance will be about 1,200 and that every college and university of any importance in the country will be represented, Among the probable speakers are Congressman Reed, Governor McKinley, Senators Aldrich, Higgins, Wolcott and Burrows, and ex-Senator John Patton, Jr. The speeches will be made the night of April 5, after a banquet...
...meeting which preceded the dinner the officers of the past year were re-elected. About one hundred members were present. President Gleason acted as toastmaster and the following men spoke: Rev. A. M. Lord, Harvard '83, on "A Practical Application of the Fraternity Spirit;" Mr. Henry A. Thomas, the Governor's private secretary, on "Our Country;" A. B. Haven, Rutgers '82, on "The Bar;" President B. L. Whitman, of Colby, spoke on the necessity of developing the spiritual side of human nature. Other speakers were Rev. S. E. Lane, Union '41, A. L. Blair, Hamilton '72, and E. M. Bassett...
Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott's speech at the dinner of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston indicates what seems to us to be the most reasonable attitude on the football question. His criticism of the game is as severe as any that has appeared during the current discussion, but he differs radically from President Eliot in believing that the objectionable elements of the game as played last season are mere incidents which can be avoided, - that they are not in any sense essential to the highest development of the sport...
...well known Harvard graduates, Lieutenant Governor Roger Wolcott '70, and Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt '80, the one at the annual dinner of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston and the other at the Harvard Club of Washington, gave their views on the football question Thursday night...