Word: holding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Civil Service Reform Club will hold its annual meeting this evening at 7.30 in Lower Massachusetts. Reports of the secretary and of the treasurer will be read and officers for the coming year will be elected. Any men who wish to join the club may become members at the meeting...
...Harvard Teachers' Association will hold its fourth annual meeting in Sever 11 next Saturday morning. Professor Hanus, Secretary Hill, Professor W. W. Goodwin and several others will discuss different phases of "educational values...
...International Athletic Congress at Paris last summer, it was decided to hold athletic contests every four years, open to amateurs only, to be known as the Olympic Games. If some lovers of Pindar feel their teeth on edge at this name, as applied to bicycle races and lawn tennis tournaments, we Greeks are to a man delighted that the first of these meetings is to be held in Athens, by unanimous vote of the members of the aforesaid Congress. And doubtless there could be no fitter spot to inaugurate these contests, which will be of incalculable benefit to the cause...
...Harvard to send representatives to their meetings. This could not be done, however, on account of the unfavorable condition of our gymnastics. Dr. Sargent thinks Harvard ought to be represented on such occasions since in former years it had the lead in gymnastics. The B. A. A. is to hold a meeting on March 12, and Dr. Sargent thinks it imperative that Harvard should send delegates to it. Several members of the Faculty formerly interested in gymnasium work will address the meeting which is to be called next Wednesday, and it is hoped a large number of men will attend...
...Harvard Union will hold a regular debate in Sever 11 at 7.30 tonight. The question, in view of the present great interest in city government, is very timely: "Resolved, That municipal ownership and management of street railways is desirable." The principal disputants will be E. C. Ellis L. S. and W. J. Peacock L. S. on the affirmative; and on the negative, J. P. Parker '96 and A. C. Train '96. After the principal disputants have spoken, the debate will be open to the house and all members of the University are cordially invited to speak...