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...glad to learn that scrub football is to be revived, at least within the Freshman squad. This form of exercise died out through lack of interest, but as the new rules are becoming better known, the lead of the Freshman class may in time be followed by the organization of a more general series--one which will prepare the way for a better quality of class football...
...Theatre this morning at 10 o'clock. At these exercises the Hon. John D. Long '57, at one time Secretary of the Navy, will preside, and the address of welcome will be delivered by President Charles W. Eliot. The main addresses will be given by Professor Monett, a well known scholar of Geneva, Switzerland, on "John Calvin and the Reformation Movement at Geneva," and by Professor Pfleiderer, of the University of Berlin, on "The Tendency of Positive Religions to Universal Religion." Professor F. G. Peabody '69 will also give an illustrated description of Harvard University. Immediately after the exercises...
...Board of Directors of the Alumni Association created last January a new officer known as the General Secretary of the Alumni Association. Asst. Dean E. H. Wells '97 was chosen to hold this office. Headquarters were acquired at 50 State street, Boston, and much work is already underway in enlarging the scope of the Bulletin, in obtaining geographical, chronological, alphabetical lists of all Harvard men with addresses and occupations, in increasing the efficiency of the Appointments Office, in closely connecting all Harvard interests throughout the country and in furnishing information on Harvard affairs. Mr. Wells, though holding this position...
...board was established last fall by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, which is known as the Resident Executive Board. The duties of this new board are to supervise, control, and amend, subject to the authority of the President and Fellows; the business administration of the University. The board consists of the President, the Comptroller, the Bursar, the Inspector of Grounds and Buildings, the Secretary to the Corporation, the Assistant Dean of Harvard College, and the Regent. By means of these men the routine work of the President and Fellows is accomplished...
...most noticeable improvement in the Union during the past year has been in the lecturers that have addressed the members. The Governing Board has made it a definite policy to obtain only prominent and well-known speakers. Among those who have spoken are President Roosevelt, President Eliot, Secretary Shaw, Hon. Thomas P. O'Connor, M.P., Hon. John D. Long, Major Henry Lee Higginson, Hon. William J. Bryan, Dr. W. T. Grenfell, Mr. Booker T. Washington, Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, and Mr. Jacob A. Riis. These names in themselves convey some idea of the variety of subjects discussed...