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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual dinner of the Phillips Brooks House Association held in the Union last night at which the officers of the Standing Committees rendered their reports for the past year it was shown that the work of the Association had increased, and had adapted itself very successfully to war conditions in the past year, especially in connection with the military and naval units at the University. That Americanization at home and reconstruction abroad are the two great post-war problems facing the college man was also emphatically brought out. The reports follow in full...
Mention should also be made of the Thanksgiving and Christmas entertainments which were carried out this year, as in the past, with marked success, and of the revising and enlarging of the register of rooms and lodgings available for students, in anticipation of the large number of men returning to College after January...
...seem unfitting therefore that this powerful agency in this world work should be promoted in the future by an adequate provision for the work of instruction and practice at a university which ought to be among the leaders in this as in other branches of instruction. For fifteen years past, there have been from four hundred to five hundred students, in the University at large, receiving regular instruction in public speaking. Suitable rooms have been greatly needed; one large auditorium and several small practice-rooms--a laboratory--centrally located, removed from noisy streets, and suitably fitted. All the interests wherein...
...management of the University Musical Clubs has announced that the 18th joint concert with the Yale Glee and Instrumental Clubs has been arranged for the evening of May 24 to take place in Jordan Hall. In the past it has been customary to hold the dual concert on the evening before the Yale football game, but this has been impossible for several years on account of the war. The last regular joint concert of the clubs of the two universities was held at New Haven in the fall...
...over The Hill, the cause of good scholarship is shedding a discreet tear just behind the scenes. Causes and alibis for "busting," and pro-bations are more plentiful than ever, but none answer the damning indictment that too much of Cornell has been guilty of intellectual slovenliness during the past term...