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...Modern Language Conference was also founded in 1890. The primary object of this conference was to unite the students in all the modern language courses. This is of especial importance, because it is very necessary to emphasize the need of real cooperation of all students in any of the modern language courses. It is most hurtful for the men to be engrossed in the study of German or French or English, at the expense of everything else. A full understanding of any of these subjects can only be had by studying the others. The conference meets now every two weeks...
...Semitic Conference was, with the exception of the Geological Conference, the first to be organized. It was formed in 1882 as a seminary. The object of Professors Toy and Lyon was to promote intimacy among the more advanced students and to study special topics lying within the Semitic field. Three years ago, when by a vote of the faculty all such organizations not counting for degrees lost the title of seminary, the Semitic Seminary became the Semitic Conference. This year it counts for a degree and is once more a seminary. It meets once a week. Its social side...
...candidates for the 'varsity crew begin preliminary training this afternoon; the new men have been divided into two squads and for the present the work will be confined to drill on the rowing machines, dumbbell exercise and the daily run. The object of this preliminary practice is to sift out the material so that the most promising men can go into active training and do tank work immediately after the Christmas recess...
UNIVERSITY LECTURES.During the year 1893-94, Mr. Copeland will give a number of lectures on literature, of which the subjects and the dates will be announced in this Calendar. The chief object of these lectures will be to stimulate interest in books and to suggest lines of reading to such members of the University as desire some knowledge of English Literature without the minute study demanded by the regular courses of instruction...
...object of the Verein is to encourage the study of German life and literature and to provide a means of social intercourse for those interested in German. Meetings are held every other week when the club is, as a usual thing, addressed by a member of the faculty or by some prominent German...