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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must be gradual, and the system must be patiently developed if it is to amount to anything. As a first step we propose that the 1900 club continue its organization this year. If the present Sophomore members of the Union and the Forum will take this matter up, and make their final aim a spring debate with the Freshmen, they will at all events have given the idea a trial. No harm can result, and it may do Harvard debating a great service...
...favor of the project. Nearly twelve hundred signed the blue-books at once. There was some thoughtful opinion against the plan, based chiefly on the question of practicability, but without ignoring the very small minority, the committee of graduates who had the matter in hand were able to make a strong though thoroughly conservative report in favor of the University Club. The meeting to which the committee made its report empowered Mr. C. F. Adams to appoint another committee which should be authorized to take over the entire project and to act on it as it should...
...Modern Language Conference of Harvard University will hold its first meeting of the year this evening at 8 p. m., in Sever 5. The conference was organized primarily to enable graduate students of the Modern Language Division to make known to one another the results of investigations in which they may be engaged. Papers are also read by the instructors of the division; and from time to time reviews are given of important new books and of articles in the periodicals. Membership in the conference is open to all graduate students of modern languages...
...shown by the statement of a member of the committee which has superintended the plans for the Brooks Memorial building, there are practical reasons which will make it difficult to use that fund for a University Club. The sum has been raised by small subscriptions, and the committee being unable to ascertain the wishes of the subscribers, naturally feel bound for this reason, if for no other, to carry out their original plans...
...possible to secure the necessary subscriptions. It seems to me that the time is ripe for some active measures to bring all this latent feeling to a head. A vigorous canvass of the College, followed by a rousing mass meeting would give some authority to those who desire to make the club a reality...