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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Justin Winsor's Columbus Day address. "America Prefigured" is printed and Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson contributes some interesting extracts from old college diaries...
...their spirits. All the levity stopped and there was hardly a joke from Niagara to Buffalo. The train was an hour late, making a quick change necessary before the concert, which was well attended. The Buffalo Club gave a dinner after the concert where the fellows watched the old year out. The new year, only too anxious to take its place, put the men to shame, getting in several hours before most of them...
After Mr. Adams had addressed a few words to the meeting, on the advantages of an Electric Club and the proper methods of running one, the old constitution was amended. The following officers were then elected; - President, P. W. Davis; vice-president G. B. Pierce; secretary and treasurer, F. E. Frothingham; librarian, E. Clark; executive committee, above officers ex- officers, J. C. D. Hitch, T. H. Soren, J. F. Vaughan...
Lunches were served in boxes after the train left Worcester. The new men had an air about them of quiet enjoyment; they seemed to feel that they were just entering the easiest task of a lifetime. The old men realized that they had a hard time before them and many of them slept most of the day. The Wah Hoos elected officers for one year and then the car was fairly quiet. At New York the clubs weat right to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. Wendell '91 met the fellows there and made them feel at home After the Concert...
...Trophy Room today at four o'clock. Every man in college who can do anything in track athletics is wanted-not only me who have been members of the team but those who have not come out before. There is often a tendency on the part of the old men to delay coming out till late in the season when they rely upon extra hard training to make up for what they have lost in the beginning. New men, as we have remarked before are often diffident about coming out, fearing that they will be of no use in athletics...