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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of the society during the past year has continued in much the same lines as before, except for the opening of the Reading Room for Workingmen on Washington Street. Not enough money has yet been received to keep the room open throughout the spring, as the Church Army has refused to pay the sum agreed upon. Magazines have been supplied in numbers, and students have been in attendance in the evenings. The membership of the club is as large as ever and the treasury is in a better condition than for several years. The club expects to send...
...ordinary young American very few names mean as much as does that of Lincoln. As the Civil War recedes further into the past, Lincoln is gradually rising in the estimation of the people, and the reverence which is felt for his memory is marked by the growing tendency to observe his birthday, as a date worthy of national commemoration. The special service, which is to be held in Appleton Chapel to mark the day, is then sure to appeal to the college...
Without question Harvard debaters could do much to increase the interest in debate among the schools. The past few years of college history have proved so forcibly the advantages to college men of learning to discuss questions with ease and intelligence before an audience, that those advantages are well understood. Schoolboys are, of course, not so well fitted to handle difficult questions, but aside from the intellectual training, they are perfectly capable of profiting by the experience of facing an audience. This portion, at least, of the speaker's training can not be begun too early, and that the fact...
...will submit several important amendments at the annual meeting of the association to be held in New York February 26. The committee consists of Henry W. Howe '97, of Harvard; Oliver Sheras, of Cornell, G. T. Kirby, of Columbia; and Murdock Kendrick, of the University of Pennsylvania. During the past three months these men have been at work on the constitution, and have conferred with the prominent athletic authorities of the country, the majority of whom favor the proposed changes...
...will match her strength in other events with some of the best college athletes in the country, will justify a good representation from Cambridge among the spectators. It is unfortunate that the increased entry-fees should have made the number of Harvard contestants so much smaller than in past years, but that is the more reason why those who are entered should have a good backing...