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...fifth annual scratch Freshman track meet will be held on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Sixty-three entries have been made, a decrease of eight from last year. No one will be allowed to compete who has not taken a strength test. Cups will be given to the winners of first and second places in each event. There will be no charge for admission...
...Boston City Club gave a dinner last evening in honor of the Presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. President Lowell, in speaking of the relations of the University to the community, laid special stress on the importance of confining university extension to fields in which the existing resources of the university could be placed at the service of the community. It was much better, he said, to have substantial instruction of a high grade given by a few of the most eminent and stimulating teachers than to have superficial or merely entertaining courses of a popular...
...Connor, M.P., lectured in the Union last night on "The Passing of the Old Ireland." He outlined the history of the land problem in Ireland and pictured the present state of affairs in that country...
...passage of the land acts, the condition and the attitude of the peasant were greatly changed. He was no longer servile but stood up for his rights. In a few years there will be half a million land owners in Ireland who will represent 250 millions of population. The last thing that Ireland has to win is self-government based upon American principles, and for this, the struggle is now going...
...reading last night under the auspices of the Speakers' Club is indicative of the direction in which that club is going to direct its energies henceforth, it may well find reason for satisfaction in having at last reached its legitimate field. The presentation of a play by the club last year was so clearly foreign to its province and so much an intrusion on the vested privileges of the Dramatic Club that the CRIMSON was constrained to protest. We have been assured that the Speakers' Club will hereafter confine itself to the encouragement of public reading, speaking, and argument...