Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corporal Strypes, W. C. Houston...
...Houston Club, of the University of Pennsylvania, the organization and financial arrangements of which were described in yesterday's CRIMSON, offers what may be a suggestive parallel to the plans for a University Club or Union at Harvar. With the exeption of the baths, which thus far at least have not been prominently suggested, the proposed club at Harvard would not improbably include all the features of the Houston Club and some others besides. So far as appears, the members of the Pennsylvania club have been moved to join purely for the actual usefulness and convenience which they...
...erection of the new Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania has already been noticed in the CRIMSON. As the objects of the Houston Club which is there established are similar in some ways to those of the proposed University Club or Union at Harvard, an account of its workings will be of interest. The purpose of the Houston Club was to draw the members of the different departments into closer contact with each other and as in the plan for the Harvard organization this end is obtained by providing certain definite conveniences to the members. Among these...
Twelve hundred students have already joined the Houston Club and only a few days ago membership cards were still being issued at the rate of eighty a day. It is expected that by the end of the month nearly every member of the university will have joined. A great many graduates have become associate members. The expectations of the promoters of the club have already been more than realized. That there was need of such a meeting place for the students is already indicated by the large numbers who daily frequent the hall...
...having for its object the formation of a federation of the graduate clubs of the various universities and colleges in the United States was held in Philadelphia on January 3. The delegates were most hospitably received and kindly treated by the Pennsylvania Graduate Club. The meeting was held in Houston Hall, the handsome new clubhouse of the Houston Club...