Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, the original purpose in building the Coffee House was to provide appropriate facilities for the genial institution of "Change." This was a time-honored custom of the merchants to meet on the sidewalk of State Street at about 1 o'clock as they left their counting rooms, and talk shop, ships, and politics for half an hour or so. The whole first story of the ambitious new Coffee House was devoted to a great Exchange Floor, but this probably saw little business, for according to the contemporary account of Caleb Snow, the merchants preferred to follow...
Harvard's debating season opens on the evening of Saturday, February 9, when the University of Pittsburgh debaters meet the Harvard team. The debate will be held in Paine Hall, Music Building, at 8.15 o'clock. Harvard will support the affirmative of the proposition: "Modern Advertising is detrimental to the interests of society...
...triangular meet with Brown and Holy Cross on May 4, replacing the usual meet with M. I. T., is one of the feature events on the spring track schedule which has been announced by the Athletic Association. For the past few years the Penn Relays during the last week of April have been followed by a dual meet with M. I. T. on the first Saturday in May. This meet, however, has usually been very onesided with the result that the Athletic Association has undertaken the triangular meet as an innovation for the outdoor season...
...captain of the University track team will once again face Leo Lermond, the Olympic star, according to an announcement of a change of plans which places the Harvard man's name upon the list of entries for the Hunter Mile, the feature distance event of the B. A. A. meet to be held in the Arena on Saturday evening...
Another change in the University plans for Saturday's meet is that now Reid has entered the mile, the Crimson runners will not participate in the two mile relay with six other colleges as originally announced...