Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than fifty men were present at the Union meeting last evening. This is a surprisingly small number, as the question debated is one that is stirring our nation at present, and therefore should be of great interest to us all. The question before the meeting read thus: "Resolved, that the causes for divorce should be made uniform throughout the United States by constitutional amendment...
...Hale, '91, who opened the debate for the affirmative, gave an account of the divorce laws as they exist at present in our country, and showed the evils which are constantly caused by them. Each state, said the speaker, has its own divorce law, which is as different from that of the other states as the North Pole is from the South. A man or woman who cannot obtain a divorce in one state has only to remove to some other state where the laws will suit the case in hand. Many attempts have been made to prevent this...
...spite of the stormy weather last night about thirty members of the Conference Francaise were present at the bi-weekly meeting in the club's rooms in the Old Hasty Pudding building. Mr. C. H. C. Wright, '91, read a very interesting paper on college life in France, and particularly in Normandy. Professor Cohn then read the play which is going to be put on the stage by the Conference Francaise in two or three months. The play is a comedy in one act by Jules Moineau and is entitled "Les Deux Sourds." At places it is highly ludicrous...
...class in sparring, will meet with the approval of us all. There are so few heavyweights in college that a bout in this class is growing to rarity in the winter meetings. Consequently a new class has almost become a necessity and would be very acceptable at the present time. But in addition to a reason which emanates from a desire to witness more sparring, there is a growing feeling among the lighter men that it is manifestly unfair to match two contestants against each other, one of whom is several pounds heavier than his opponent, especially in a class...
...Church Students' Missionary Association of the United States and Canada formed in New York last year. At the close of the discussion it was decided to send two delegates to the convention of the association, which is to be held in New York Friday and Saturday of the present week. It was also voted to join the Cambridge Theological School in extending an invitation to the association to hold its convention in Cambridge next year...