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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Theodore C. Williams, who is at present conducting prayers, will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening. Mr. Williams took his degree at Harvard several years ago and afterwards graduated from the Divinity School. He is pastor of All Souls Church in New York, a leading Unitarian conjuration. Dr. Bellows was pastor of the church at the time of his death...
...Union has begun this year under the most favorable auspices. When the meeting was called to order by President C. M. Thayer, '89, at 7.40 o'clock, the hall was already crowded, and the audience continued to increase for some time later, until finally 278 men were present After the reading of the secretary's minutes, the question was chosen for the next meeting as follows: "Resolved, that the present attitude of the Prohibition party is unfavorable toward prohibition." It was voted that the presiding officer of the Union should appoint a committee to make a canvass of the University...
...second speaker for the affirmative was Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S. He said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
...Harvard Banjo Club of the present is a very youthful organization, dating one year later than the first freshman glee club, which originated with the class of '88. The members of the class of '89 not only followed the praiseworthy step of their upper-classmen in forming a freshman glee club, but also instituted a class banjo club, which assisted the Glee Club at its concerts. The members of this club, at the end of their freshmen year, decided that there ought to be a regular 'varsity banjo club, so at the beginning of their sophomore term, in the fall...
Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 not later than 4 o'clock. By the regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted unless. the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance...