Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mass meeting formed an organization for the purpose of establishing a debating league with Amherst or Williams, or both. Officers were elected, and letters sent to the two colleges to see if any arrangements for debates could be made. At Williams the proposal was very favorably received and met with the approval of those members of the faculty who are most interested in oratorical work; and it is probable that the movement will result in the formation of a permanent intercollegiate debating society, under whose control debates will be held during the winter term of each college year...
About sixty men interested in the new engineering society met last night in L. S. S. 1. Professor Hollis presided. A constitution was read and adopted. The organization received the name of the Harvard Engineering Society. It is not intended to displace the Electric Club, but hopes to encourage it and to be the cause of the growth of other clubs in different departments of engineering. The new society is to be more general and is intended...
...baseball team is having trouble. Last week all candidates for the positions of pitcher and catcher were asked to meet in the gymnasium at 3.30 in the afternoon of a certain day. At the appointed hour two men appeared, one pitcher and one catcher. They had never met before and consequently there was no chance to judge of them as a battery. After waiting half an hour, they, with ex-Captain Cook, left the gymnasium, feeling that the freshman baseball season had not opened very auspiciously...
...next difficulty was that when these bells were used the regular line had to be cut off, and restored when a person had been called. This difficulty was met by the invention of the automatic switch, by means of which the hanging up to transmitter on the side of the telephone closed the regular line, so that the bell could be rung...
...International Law Club met last night at 24 Claverly Hall. L. Davis '94, and C. F. Clarkson '94 read papers on the "History of Consuls." Dr. Snow was present and gave an informal talk on the subject...