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About fifty Seniors met last night in Sever 11 and organized a class debating club for the year, to be known as the Senior Wranglers. Practically the same system as was in use last year was adopted. The officers of this year and last year were appointed a committee to suggest amendments to the constitution. The following officers were elected: President E. E. Sargeant; vice-president, O. D. Evans; secretary-treasurer, H. A. Wadleigh; captains, M. Seasongood and T. H. Whitney: The president was elected as club representative on the interclass committee. Seniors who have not yet joined may join...
...purchased last year with money raised under the direction of President Eliot, has been placed in charge of the State and is being converted into a public park. The land which adjoins it on the south has also been bought and has been added to what will eventually be known as the Lowell Memorial Park. As yet, little work has been done on the grounds except to clear off dead trees and to grade down slight elevations. Under the state park commissioners, however, the work of improving and enclosing the land will be hastened and it is expected that...
University debating will begin tonight by the meeting of all Seniors who are interested in debating at 7 o'clock in Sever 11. The class club of last year, known as the Wranglers was very successful and had a membership of about seventy men. The club was divided into two sides which debated against each other every two weeks and the side which won the majority of the debates had a dinner at the expense of the losing side. The meetings were held in the room of some member of the club and were followed by refreshments...
Henry Hobart Brown '76, of Philadelphia, founder and principal of the well-known De Lancey School, died on Thursday, August 18, at the Bryn Mawr Hospital, Pennsylvania. He was forty-four years old at the time of his death, which resulted from blood poisoning and septic pneumonia. A wife and son survive...
Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...