Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there is much confusion. The music-lover who is anxious perhaps to hear a famous statesman lecture loses an opportunity, because he cannot miss his Symphony; and the member of many clubs and organizations frequently finds himself swamped with their meetings when distinguished world authorities to whom he would like to listen, are talking three blocks away in Emerson J or the Union...
...letter to every club suggesting that all meetings be arranged for Tuesday evenings. Though some clubs will probably find this impossible, if it can be put into general effect it will serve two ends: First, club meetings will not sap the audiences from lectures, concerts and the like; and second, undergraduates will find it easier to keep straight their engagements. Conflicts among the clubs can be avoided by the use of different. Tuesday nights during the month. For further information in regard to the proposed plan, see the Chairman of the Committee on Organizations in Holworthy...
...plan of teaching in the far East for a year under the Missionary Boards there was inaugurated some time ago as an attractive scheme for the men who are not decided as to what they wish to do and who would like the experience and the travel. The teachers hold positions in some institution of the East for a year in exactly the same capacity as that in which one would teach in this country. It gives an opportunity for exceptional service and enables one to study the missionary activity of the church at first hand. It greatly facilitates...
...Rockefeller Hall, its object being to centralize and direct the religious activity of Brown men. The work of the Association is nonsectarian and covers a wide field, including the management of the Employment and Equipment Bureaus, social extension work in the city, classes for special study and the like...
...dinners are given in the Union, and there is a dance, open to all members for 50 cents, given every Saturday night, the usual attendance being from 75 to 100 couples. Every Friday night is held a so-called "Lounger" when men gather informally to play cards and the like. Under the auspices of Mimes, an adjunct of the Union, an opera is given every year. Five performances are given in Ann Arbor, and last year the cast presented the play at Chicago. Early in the year the Union conducts rooming and employment agencies, and has been very successful along...