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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Association in Boston, and the measures taken to give information and assistance to new students at the beginning of the year are of especial importance and value, to the members as well as to the objects of their interest, and are every year getting to be a more necessary part of the University life. The creation of the office of General Secretary is amply justified by the natural growth in the Association's sphere of work; with such an official to give the greater part of his attention to the affairs of the organization there is every reason to believe...
Early last September the Association began the first part of this work by mailing to all members of the incoming class the small handbook containing brief information about the religious societies, the social clubs, the musical organizations, and other matters of interest to Freshmen. This book is now sent out annually. A week before the beginning of the college year, an information bureau was opened in Holden Chapel, where a committee was ready to receive new students and to render any possible assistance. The reading rooms, which are open throughout the year, afforded a place for Freshmen to come together...
...principal work of the Association has been done through the weekly devotional meetings and the Bible classes. The weekly devotional meetings have been conducted for the most part by members of the Association, and in them addresses have been given by Mr. W. H. Salmon of Yale, Prof. G. H. Palmer, Dr. Alexander McKenzie, Dr. Grenfell of Oxford, and by returned missionaries...
...tickets for the observation train at the boat race have been sent out to those who made application. Part of one car, about 70 seats, will be placed on general sale at Leavitt and Peirce's this morning. No one will be allowed to purchase more than three tickets at this sale...
Largely owing to a lack of subscriptions, the committee on the proposed University Club has not taken any definite steps during the past year. And it looks very much as though this state of affairs is, in part, at least the result of the small amount of active interest taken in the plan, especially among the undergraduates, for whom the club was designed. It seems reasonable to suppose that if the pressing need for the club were more clearly demonstrated and more generally known, the subscriptions to the fund would be larger and more numerous. There is now a strong...