Word: parlor
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...University teas will be held this year as usual in the parlor of the Phillips Brooks House. These teas will begin on Friday, November 30, and will continue through the months of December, January and February on every Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. President and Mrs. Eliot are generally present at these functions and the various officers of the University and their wives are invited, so that an opportunity is provided for students to come in closer touch with the older men and their families...
...first University and Freshman devotional meetings will be held in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. The University meeting, for upperclassmen and members of the graduate schools will be held in Phillips Brooks Parlor, and will be led by W. H. Keeling '07. J. M. Groves '05 will lead the Freshman meeting in the Shepard Room. The subject for both meetings will be "Individual Influence...
...graduate schools are invited, and a Freshman meeting. These will be short meetings, consisting of a general discussion of some practical ethical or religious question, closely related to college life. The meetings will be led by undergraduates. The first University meeting will be held in Brooks parlor tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock and will be led by W. H. Keeling '07; the first Freshman meeting, which will be held at the same time in the Shepard Room will be led by J. M. Groves '05. H. Channing '08 is chairman of the committee in charge of this department...
...annual reception to new students, which is most men's introduction to Phillips Brooks House, was attended by about 500 men, and was so crowded that it has been decided to change next fall from the Parlor to the large hall on the third floor. The Handbook was revised and enlarged, and better bound than before; 1800 copies were issued, but as the demand outran the supply, a larger edition will be printed next year...
...plan of Sunday afternoon gatherings in the Parlor of the House was fairly successful. Music and tea were provided each day, and a considerable number of excellent talks and readings were given. Some of the most successful entertainments were those at which Dr. Henry van Dyke h.'94, Judge Robert Grant '73, Professor G. H. Palmer '64, and Mr. George Riddle '74 read; and others with talks by Professor W. M. Davis on South Africa, Professor H. S. White '73 on "Harvard Athletics a Generation Ago", and by Dr. W. C. Farabee Ph.D. on Iceland...