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...Young Men's Christian Association in North America, will conduct the conference. Some fifty delegates are expected from the New England colleges, Pennsylvania and Princeton, and will arrive this afternoon. The conference will last until Sunday evening. On Friday and Saturday three regular sessions will be held, one in the morning at 9, the second in the afternoon at 2.30, and the third in the evening at 7.30 o'clock. All men willing to entertain one or more of the delegates, during their stay in Cambridge, should send their names to L. C. Seaverns '10, at Phillips Brooks House...
Members of the University are cordially invited to attend any one or all of these meetings...
...That there is some truth in this complaint few will deny. And though we have labored patiently to avoid this evil, the various schemes and methods thus far proposed and tried out have not been particularly successful; especially have the class meetings and smokers been ineffective. Now there is one conspicuous reason for this, namely, our inability to remember for this, namely, our inability to remember so many strange names presented to us at one time. For most of us it is comparatively easy to remember strange faces, but few of us can associate with those strange faces the proper...
...current number of the Advocate is made up of five timely and well-expressed editorials, three poems, one play, three stories, and an essay. The verse is of the average undergraduate standard. The play attempts too much in a short space to be effective. Of the stories, "The Man in Puce Waistcoat" relates a humorous incident, apparently in Eighteenth Century England, of how the choleric gentleman, in the costume described, lost five pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which...
...Advocate this week is readable, not distinguished. It might as well have been published in Tucson, Arizona, as in Cambridge. Have the undergraduates, one wonders, no ideas to express on college questions of the hour, no tales to tell of undergraduate life? An issue which would discuss these things would be of extreme interest to graduates and surely would be to undergraduates as well. They are not different from the rest of the world--they, too, like to read about themselves